Human Laws

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To write one's memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself.

Marshal Henri Pétain




The Law of Waiting: For each minute you are running late, the chances of being stuck behind a slow school bus or being caught by a train at a crossing increases exponentially. Direct Corelation: When you are running on time, it is entirely likely you will be pulled over for speeding.




Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace.

Orson Scott Card




Never sneeze while holding coffee.




War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill




Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Wirth's law




If I lost a friend I'd be sad. If I lost a family member I would cry. If I lost you I would die.

Tasia Rae Fennewald




Do it for those who know you can and those who think you cant




" A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

Oscar Wilde




A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.

Polish proverb




Budget: A mathematical confirmation of your suspicions




The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Jean Cocteau




For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice




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