Brandeis’s Law
Louis Brandeis
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker it breeds contempt for the law.
Browning’s Observation
Robert Browning
Less is more.
Burn’s Law of Social Change
A. R. Burn
It usually takes about a century, or three generations, for a people after a far-reaching social change to get habits which are no longer really relevant out of their systems.
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.
Catt’s Law
Carrie Lane Catt
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Chaucer’s Third Law
Geoffrey Chaucer
Murder will out.
Cheshire’s Law of the Social Jungle
Maxine Cheshire
Everything that goes up must come down.
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.
Clarke’s Laws
Arthur C. Clarke
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
