(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.
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.
Bevan’s Law
Aneurin Bevan
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
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.
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