THE WORM'S LAMENT

 

"That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed."
- First known to have been written by Robert Heinlein in his story Time Enough For Love. 

STAR'S LAW OF PANDEMICS

 

MAHFOUZ'S LAW

"Home is not where you were born - home is where your attempts to escape cease."-

N. Mahfouz​ (via Christine Waters)

HANLON'S RAZOR

HANLON'S RAZOR: "Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity."

-Submitted by Robert Hanlon to Arthur Bloch's book, Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong! (1980).  Equivalent to a quote in Robert Heinlein's story Logic of Empire (1941) where a character states, "You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity."