Subject: Murphy’s Laws

Murphy’s Laws:

Various “laws,” axioms, principles and observations that usually convey a cynical view of life and an underlying sense of futility. Most do not prove, or even explain anything, but rather simply state a maxim – usually that things will go wrong.

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The length of a progress report is inversely proportional to the amount of progress.

Murphy’s Laws

An unexpectedly easy-to-handle sequence of events will be immediately followed by an equally long sequence of trouble.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

A condominium is just an apartment with a down payment.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Never make a decision that you can get someone else to make.

Murphy’s Laws

All rush jobs are due the same day.

Murphy’s Laws

Any child who chatters nonstop at home will adamantly refuse to utter a word when requested to demonstrate for an audience.

Children Communication Family Murphy’s Laws Old Speech

Trouble strikes in series of threes, but when working around the house the next job after a series of three is not the fourth job – it's the start of a brand new series of three.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Work

The spirit of public service will rise, and the bureaucracy will multiply itself much faster, in time of grave national concern.

Government Murphy’s Laws

All life is 6 to 5 against.

Life Murphy’s Laws

The best shots are generally attempted through the lens cap.

Murphy’s Laws Things

No two identical parts are alike.

Murphy’s Laws

The cigarette smoke always drifts in the direction of the non-smoker regardless of the direction of the breeze.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Situations

Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

The number of rational hypotheses that can explain any given phenomenon is infinite.

Murphy’s Laws

You can always find what you're not looking for.

Murphy’s Laws

Don’t ever be the first, don’t ever be the last and don’t ever volunteer to do anything.

Military Murphy’s Laws

There is an exception to all laws.

Murphy’s Laws

If a research project is not worth doing at all, it is not worth doing well.

Murphy’s Laws

1. If the facts are against you, argue the law. 2. If the law is against you, argue the facts. 3. If the facts and the law are against you, yell like hell.

Government Intelligence Law Murphy’s Laws

Whatever you did, that's what you planned.

Murphy’s Laws

The easier it is to do the harder it is to change.

Murphy’s Laws