Everyday Laws To Keep In Mind

1. If anything can go wrong, it will – Murphy’s Law
2. One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory – Brown’s Rule
3. If you don’t need it and don’t want it, there is always plenty of it – Murphy’s Law of Supply
4. If you don’t care where you are, you’re not lost – Rune’s Rule of the Road
5. Man is always ready to die for an idea, provided that the idea is not quite clear to him – Eldridge’s Law of War
6. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive – Grandpa Charnock’s Law
7. A little inaccuracy can save a lot of explanation – Munroe’s Teaching Principle
8. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people – Chesterton
9. It is impossible for anyone to learn that which he thinks he already knows – Plutarch’s Rule
10. If you don’t do anything, you can’t do anything wrong – Cameron’s Law
11. If credit can possibly go to someone else, it will – Kovaleski’s Dictum
12. Whichever way you turn upon entering an elevator, the buttons will be on the opposite side – Gluck’s Law
13. The probability of someone’s asking irrelevant questions requiring lengthy responses increases in direct proportion to how tired you are of the meeting. – Bowlby’s Law
14. There’s no time like the present for postponing what you don’t want to do – Hecht’s Law
15. As soon as you’re doing what you wanted to be doing, you want to be doing something else – Law of Living
16. Accuracy is the sum total of your compensating mistakes – Wingfield’s Axiom
17. Never replicate a successful experiment – Fett’s Law of the Lab
18. The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made – Glyme’s Formula for Success
19. No matter how often a lie is shown to be false, there will remain a percentage of people who believe it to be true – Law of the Lie
20. The one who does the least work will get the most credit – Shapiro’s Law of Reward
21. Free time that unexpectedly becomes available will be wasted – Sandiland’s Law
22. Nothing is as temporary as that which is called permanent – Jose’s Axiom
23. The item you had your eye on the minute you walked in will be taken by the person in front of you – Cafeteria Law
24. The degree to which you overreact to information will be in inverse proportion to its accuracy – Weatherwax’s Postulate
25. There is no issue so small that it can’t be blown out of proportion – Ruckert’s Law
26. If you are in a hole, stop digging – 1st Rule of Excavation
27. Sometimes it takes several years to recognize the obvious – Sy’s Law of Science
28. Things get worse under pressure – Murphy’s Law of Thermodynamics
29. No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right – Scott’s First Law
30. When a politician gets an idea, he usually gets it wrong – the 5th Rule of Politics
31. Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other – Ameringer’s Axiom
32. In America, it’s not how much an item costs, it’s how much you save – Paulg’s Law
33. Once you give up integrity, the rest is easy – Evan’s Law
34. To err is human, but to really f*ck things up requires a computer – Law of Unreliability
35. There are no answers, only cross-references – Weiner’s Law of Libraries
36. Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups – Wethern’s Law of Suspended Judgment
37. It doesn’t matter if you win or lose… until you lose – O.J.’s Law