SCULLY'S MUSING

 Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"

-- Frank Scully, American journalist

PELTON'S STEPFATHER'S LAW

 "Always sell the thing that people want, to the people with the most money."- Adventurer Robert Young Pelton's stepfather, who was a hydrologist for the government of Saudi Arabia (who had too many  people looking for oil but a need for, and lack of people exploring for, water.)

HOGUE'S LAW

"When you flush a toilet, the loudest noise is the final gurgle."- John Hogue

Schuette's Law

"Congress is not the sole suppository of wisdom."-- U.S. Representative Bill Schuette of Michigan, running for the Senate, October 8, 1989

HEINLEIN'S ADAGE

 "The old adage 'the early bird gets the worm' just means the worm should have stayed in bed."- Attributed to author Robert Heinlein.

DUCHOVNY'S DENT DICTUM

 http://ew.com/article/2016/04/15/david-duchovny-book-bucky-dent-seth-meyers/

April  15, 2017- David Duchovny’s newest novel, Bucky F*ing Dent, takes its name from a 1978 playoff game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, in which the titular Yankees player devastated Red Sox fans with an unexpected home run. (The colorful epithet is his eternal punishment from angry New England residents.) That climactic game does show up in the book, but as Duchovny explained to Seth Meyers on Thursday, the name and event are more thematic touchstones for the novel’s story of a complicated father/son relationship.

“One of the characters says towards the end of the book, ‘It’s never Micky Mantle who kills you. Never Babe Ruth or Willie Mays. Never the guy you prepare for. It’s always the head cold that kills you. It’s Bucky F*ing Dent,'” Duchovny said. “It becomes like a eulogy for the losers in life, and the underdogs in a way. That’s kind of the underpinning of the whole book.”

KNOX'S OBSERVATION

"Where there's smoke, there's either fire *or* a big smoke machine." - John Knox

TYSON'S LAW

"Anyone can have a plan until they get punched in the face." -Mike Tyson

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