(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.
(Bill) Clinton’s Laws of Politics
Bill Clinton
1. Always be introduced by someone you’ve appointed to high office.
2. When you’re starting to have a good time, you’re supposed to be someplace else.
3. There is no such thing as enough money.
4. If someone tells you it’s not a money problem, it’s someone else’s problem.
5. When someone tells you it’s not personal, they’re fixing to stick it to you.
6. Nearly everyone will lie to you given the right circumstance.
(Byron) Johnson’s Laws of Bureaucratic Success
Byron L. Johnson
1. Never do anything for the first time.
2. Make only big mistakes - they will pass unnoticed.
(Charles) Darwin’s Law
Charles Darwin
This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those that are injurious, I have called Natural Selection or the Survival of the Fittest.
(Sir Julian) Huxley’s Law
Julian Huxley
Sooner or later false thinking brings wrong conduct.
(Teddy) Roosevelt’s Law
Theodore Roosevelt
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Arnold’s Laws of Documentation
Arnold
1. If it should exist it doesn’t.
2. If it does exist it’s out of date.
3. Only useless documentation transcends the first two laws.
Aspin’s Axiom
Les Aspin
If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.
Bailey’s Rule
Nathaniel Bailey
Threats without power are like powder without ball.
Baker’s Laws of Progress
Russell Baker
1. Progress is what people who are planning to do something really terrible almost always justify themselves on the grounds of.
2. Usually terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all but just terrible things.
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