Bevan’s Law
Aneurin Bevan
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Billings’s First Law
Josh Billings
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Boren’s Guidelines for Bureaucrats
James Boren
When in charge ponder; when in trouble delegate; when in doubt mumble.
Brandeis’s Law
Louis Brandeis
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker it breeds contempt for the law.
Caesar’s Law
Julius Caesar
Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.
Caesar’s Maxims
Julius Caesar
Men readily believe what they want to believe.
As a rule, men’s minds are more deeply disturbed by what they do not see.
What we desire, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we expect others to think.
Chance, which means a great deal in all sorts of circumstances but especially in war, can effect great changes with a very slight shift of the balance.
Avoid a strange and unfamiliar word as you would a dangerous reef.
If you must break the law, do it only to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Cameron’s Rule of Etiquette
Simon Cameron
You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.
Campbell’s Law
Patrick Campbell
It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you don’t do it in public and frighten the horses.
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.
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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