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Here is a list of Some Laws and Rules of Thumb

Murphy’s Law: Always hits at the worst time – Lanning’s Law 

If anything can go wrong, it will – Murphy’s Law

If you don’t need it and don’t want it, there is always plenty of it – Murphy’s Law of Supply 

In America, it’s not how much an item costs, it’s how much you save – Paulg’s Law  

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory – Brown’s Rule

I posses this Gift of a bad memory, lucky me.

Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other

Don’t believe everything you hear or anything you say – Murray’s Law things you wouldn’t need if you had stayed single – Townsend’s Law 

There is no issue so small that it can’t be blown out of proportion – Ruckert’s Law 

The degree to which you overreact to information will be in inverse proportion to its accuracy – Weatherwax’s Postulate

The item you had your eye on the minute you walked in will be taken by the person in front of you – The Law of the Cafeteria 

Nothing is as temporary as that which is called permanent – Jose’s Axiom

Nothing is as permanent as that which is called temporary – Corollary

Free time that unexpectedly becomes available will be wasted – Sandiland’s Law

The one who does the least work will get the most credit – Shapiro’s Law of Reward

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

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that; you’ve got it made – Glyme’s Formula for Success

Never replicate a successful experiment – Fett’s Law of the Lab

Accuracy is the sum total of your compensating mistakes – Wingfield’s Axiom

As soon as you’re doing what you wanted to be doing, you want to be doing something else – The Law of Living

There’s no time like the present for postponing what you don’t want to do – Hecht’s Law

Whichever way you turn upon entering an elevator, the buttons will be on the opposite side – Gluck’s Law

If credit can possibly go to someone else, it will – Kovaleski’s Dictum

If you don’t do anything, you can’t do anything wrong – Cameron’s Law

It is impossible for anyone to learn that which he thinks he already knows – Plutarch’s Rule

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people – Chesterton

A little inaccuracy can save a lot of explanation – Munroe’s Teaching Principle

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive – Grandpa Charnock’s Law

Man is always ready to die for an idea, provided that the idea is not quite clear to him – Eldridge’s Law of War

If you don’t care where you are, you’re not lost – Rune’s Rule of the Road

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

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