“Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.”

“Budget the luxuries first.”

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”

“It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.”

“Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.”

“Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.”

“Everybody is equal. Everybody! That's the law.""They are? Only from on top.”