BRESLIN'S LAW

 "If you do not blow your own horn, there's no music." - Jimmy Breslin

RIITTERS' RULE

 "well-documented junk is still junk.’’- 

Kurt Riiters, "Creativity Abhors Prescription," 2011, doi:10.1007/s10980-011-9673-4

NISKER'S SUGGESTION

 "If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own."-  Tag line of Wes "Scoop" Nisker, newsman for KSAN radio in San Francisco in the 1970s.

https://www.sfgate.com/style/article/A-liberal-Scoop-of-wit-and-sanity-3152235.php

TRUMP'S ADMONITION

"If it's not your (own) hair, don't run for office."- Donald Trump

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/394084-trump-tells-future-candidates-if-its-not-your-hair-dont-run-for

FUGATE'S LAW OF DISASTER RESPONSE

"If you show up (after a disaster) with too much stuff, there's going to be a hearing.  If you show up with not enough stuff, there's going to be a hearing, and you're going to be fired." - Craig Fugate, former FEMA administrator, on "Wx Geeks" on The Weather Channel, May 7, 2017.

GRANT'S LAW

"Progress happens one retirement at a time." - Believed to have first been formally published by Master Sergeant D.K. Grant, 21st Space Wing, in their Space Observer newspaper, March 9, 2001.

BROWN'S LAW

BROWN'S LAW: - "If you want to keep getting what you're getting, keep doing what you're doing." Attributed to motivational speaker Les Brown in 2001: may predate him.

ALEX'S LAW

 "There's no enemy quite like a former friend." - from a reply by someone named Alex to a blog post on May 13, 2017

PARCELLS' ADMONITION

"​Just because you can identify the problem, doesn't mean that you can fix it."- American football coach Bill Parcells

THE LAW OF WORK DURING COVID-19

"These days, we're not working from home.  We're living at work." - Overheard by Tom Gill during a six-hour-long Zoom meeting in September 2020.

GILL'S LAW OF WATER RESOURCES

With regards to most things in the Southwest USA, "mi casa es su casa." But in regards to water, "mi agua es... MI agua! You can't have it!" - overheard by Tom Gill in El Paso, Texas on September 6, 2016.

SUNAY'S LAW

 "If you are eating food that has the potential to stain your clothing, it is guaranteed to get on your clothes and stain your clothing!" - Sunay Palsole

Arellano's Law

"Blood is thicker than water, but it's not thicker than horchata." - Gustavo Arellano

Originally appeared in his column "Ask A Mexican," 8/3/2017: 
https://www.ocweekly.com/how-hard-is-it-to-be-a-hyphenated-mexican-8303069/

NASH'S LAW

 "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of." - Ogden Nash

GROTHE'S LAW

"Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you." - Dr. Mardy Grothe, anthologist, the title of his 1999 book, a collection of chiasmus examples.

BARRY'S LAW

 "Never hang around with people who have access to both mixed drinks and dart-shooting weapons."- Humorist Dave Barry

GILL'S APPLICATION OF THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS TO RITCHIE'S RULE

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. 
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. 
Teach the entire village to fish, and soon there will be no fish left in the lake.
- Tom Gill, applying the "tragedy of the commons" concept to the well-known saying first known to have been written by Ann Ritchie in her novel Mrs. Dymond.

LAMOTT'S LAW

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes... including you." - writer Anne Lamott.

ROOSEVELT'S LAW

"I don't care how much you know, until I know how much you care."- Attributed to Teddy Roosevelt

HARTFORD'S ADVICE

"Don't get famous (for) doing something you don't like doing." - Musician John Hartford