That’s the Rule – May 2009

Billing’s Law: Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

Coughlin’s Law: Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.

Gate’s Law: If there isn’t a law, there will be.

Harris’s Lament: All the good ones are taken.

Fagin’s Rule On Past Predictions: Hindsight is an exact science.

Checkbook Balancer’s Law: In matters of dispute, the bank’s balance is always smaller than yours.

Rune’s Rule:  If you don’t care where you are, you ain’t lost.

Heller’s Law: The first myth of management is that it exists.

Johnson’s Corollary: Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere within the organization.

The Rule Of The Way Out: Always leave room to add an explanation if it doesn’t work out.

Weiler’s Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it.

Teresa Gonzales’s Rules Of Nursing:

1. All the IV’s are at the other end of the hall.
2. There are two kinds of adhesive tape: that which won’t stay on and that which won’t come off.
3. A physician’s ability is inversely proportional to his availability.
4. Everybody wants a pain shot at the same time.
5. Everybody who didn’t want a pain shot when you were passing out pain shots wants one when you are passing out sleeping pills.