(John F.) Kennedy’s Law
John F. Kennedy
Life is unfair.
Bierce’s Law
Ambrose Bierce
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Emerson’s Third Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The efforts which we make to escape our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
Euripides’ First Law
Euripides
There is no wind that always blows a storm.
Euripides’ Third Law
Euripides
The lucky person passes for a genius.
Gumperson’s Law
R. F. Gumperson
The contradictory of a welcome probability will assert itself whenever such an eventuality is likely to be most frustrating, or, in other words, the outcome of a given desired probability will be inverse to the degree of desirability.
Herodotus’s Law
Herodotus
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
La Rochefoucauld’s Rule
François La Rochefoucauld
In the misfortunes of our best friends we find something that is not displeasing.
Micawber’s Second Law
Charles Dickens
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
Napoleon’s Law
Napoleon Bonaparte
From the sublime to the ridiculous, there is only one step.
