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[Baffler]

Okon's Razor: Among several competing threats to the fortress, the most easily dealt with is most likely to cause real damage.

[TheDarkStar]

The Law above all Laws: Losing is fun.
Corollary to the Above Law: If you don't lose at some point, you never had fun.

The Law of Death by Framerate Loss: lim (framerate) = 0
                                                      ^{x -> infinity}
                                                   Where x = items + deaths + fortress size

The Law of Megaprojects: lim (FUN) = infinity
                                     ^{y -> infinity}
                               Where y = Megaproject size * Amount of magma used

The Law of Lethality: Everything is lethal. Especially the pants.

The Law of Levers: lim (likelihood of a lever getting pulled) = 1
                            ^{degree of damage to a dwarf or to a world -> infinity}

Corollary to the Law of Levers #1: Noble-executing devices will always be pulled.
Corollary to the Law of Levers #2: Devices to flood (with water or lava) or cave in large amounts of the map will always be pulled.

The Law of Migrants: The only way to stop migrants is to kill them.
Corollary to the Above Law: Migrants can come from dead civilizations and races.

[Frostea]

The Surgeon's Oath: All doctors are to conform to OSHA safety practices before they are allowed to attend to patients. To prevent work exhaustion, a patient only may be seen after a year's worth of holiday in the dining hall. When working, they must keep themselves hydrated with ale and fed with roasts of the highest quality. If this means that they need to stop the surgery at the expense of the patient's health, they should do so with extreme prejudice.

[Robsoie]

Edict of Walling

article 0 : you will order the dwarves to build a wall with no opening to protect your fort entrance
article 1 : the dwarves that will complete the task will do from outside the wall and will be stuck there
article 2 : you will set a wall tile for deconstruction to save your unfortunate dwarves
article 3 : a goblin invasion will happen just after the dwarves removed a wall tile
article 4 : you will prepare to start a new fortress

[SmileyMan]

The Cheesemaker's Law: No matter how well you set up food & drink production, military, militia and  accommodation blocks, the first wave of immigrants will always be slightly too many for you to handle, and none of them will have useful skills.

[Verdant_Squire]

Craftman's Law: One unit of any material will always provide the exact amount of material required to create an item, and no more.

[catpaw]

A dwarf with an "(un)important" task shall not take this task serious enough to abort attending a party, which spawns over several weeks.

And then get a few week full of sleep!

Then spend another week or two drinking!

Such tasks of non-importance are:
* a broker that is requested to a caravan, especially if said caravan carries a tamed couple of tiercel peregrines of opposite sex.
* a mason requested to build a wall that completes the fortress defense.
* a mechanic requested to link a lever to the bridge to close off a dangerous cavern.
* a butcher requested to butcher some animal, so another dwarf with a strange mood does not get mad.

[Henny]

Pareto principle: 20% of the dwarves account for 80% of production.

Pareto Collary #1: The other 80% of your dwarves are of dubious value.

Pareto Collary #2: The 20% are the most likely to die.

[Zale]

Thou shall not covet thy neighbors sock, unless thine neighbor passes. Then thou shall covet thine new sock.

[Loud Whispers]

Dwarven law of thermodynamics: the temperature of magma will remain constant unless water acts upon it.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

Law of Cats: Cats will, if left unchecked, duplicate at a far faster rate than they decay.

Also:

Law of selective intangibility: Ghosts can attack and kill you, but you cannot kill ghosts.

Ehmm, ghosts can* be killed, but only if the person that's attacking them is either:
a) a badass
b) in a fell mood.

This has been your addendum to the Law of Selective Intangibility.

*As mentioned by TheDarkStar.

[MDFification]

Law of Liberation of Mass: Matter can be freely generated through certain practices, such as repeated melting/reforging of metals. It is speculated that a 'Law of Conservation of Mass' does in fact exist, and that the matter generated is of equal mass to that of the matter disappearing under the world's drawbridges, but this is widely regarded as a fringe theory. Matter can be created and destroyed by dwarves.

[Gnorm]

Urist's Bolt Principle: "Bolts on the ground tend to stay on the ground."

[TheDarkStar]

The First Law of FUN: lim FUN = infinity
                               ^{time -> infinity}

The Second Law of FUN: lim FUN = infinity
                                   ^{x -> infinity}
                                   where x is |amount above or below normal efforts to avoid FUN|

The Third Law of FUN: lim FUN = infinity
                                ^{y -> infinity}
                                where y is the number of things that can go wrong

[Noel.se]

The Law of Dust Spread: If someting walks over deadly dust, the amount of dust will increase. Related to the Law of Liberation of Mass (see below).