(Aldous) Huxley’s Law
Aldous Huxley
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
(Hiram) Johnson’s Law
Hiram Johnson
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
(John P.) Kennedy’s Law
John P. Kennedy
All is fair in love and war.
(Sir Julian) Huxley’s Law
Julian Huxley
Sooner or later false thinking brings wrong conduct.
Bailey’s Rule
Nathaniel Bailey
Threats without power are like powder without ball.
Beaumont and Fletcher’s Law
Francis Beaumont
Beggars must be no choosers.
Boren’s Guidelines for Bureaucrats
James Boren
When in charge ponder; when in trouble delegate; when in doubt mumble.
Capone’s Law
Al Capone
You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone.
Carlyle’s Second Law
Thomas Carlyle
Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty! The second duty will already have become clearer.
Cicero’s Laws for Historians
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The first law is that the historian shall never dare to set down what is false; the second that he shall never dare to conceal the truth; the third that there shall be no suspicion in his work of either favouritism or prejudice.
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