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.

View All Murphys Laws

If it looks easy, it's tough… if it looks tough, it's near impossible.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Situations

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Success

Beware of the physician who is great at getting out of trouble.

Doctors Health Murphy’s Laws

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

Murphy’s Laws

An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Murphy's Law was not propounded by Murphy, but by another man with the same name.

Murphy’s Laws

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Murphy’s Laws

If you dance with a grizzly bear, you had better let him lead.

Murphy’s Laws

All other things being equal, the side with the simplest uniforms wins.

Appearance Clothing Military Murphy’s Laws

1. The last gas station for 50 miles will be closed when you get there. 2. At the moment of any departure, the level of gas in your tank depends entirely on how late you are. 3. You only run out of gas after your wife tells you to stop for gas before you run out.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

Negative expectation thwarts realization, and self-congratulation guarantees disaster. (Or, simply put… if you think of it, it won't happen quite that way.)

Murphy’s Laws

The faster the plane, the narrower the seats.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Travel

Mines are equal opportunity weapons.

Arms Military Murphy’s Laws

History does not repeat itself; historians simply repeat each other.

History Murphy’s Laws Time

The longer ahead you plan a special event, and the more special it is, the more likely it is to go wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

No boss will keep an employee who is right all the time.

Murphy’s Laws

1. Giving away baby clothes and furniture is a major cause of pregnancy. 2. Always be backlit. 3. Sit down whenever possible.

Murphy’s Laws

There is always one more bug.

Computers Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

Education is the process of moving from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

Education Murphy’s Laws

A simple story, however inaccurate or misleading, is preferred to a complicated explanation, however true.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

The one course you must take to graduate will not be offered during your last semester.

Education Murphy’s Laws