Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 11)

Never characterize the importance of a statement in advance.

The length of any meeting is inversely proportional to the length of the agenda for that meeting.

The driver behind you wants to go five miles per hour faster.

The best shots happen immediately after the last frame is exposed.

Highways in the worst need of repair naturally have low traffic counts, which results in low priority for repair work.

As soon as you dispose of a book, even one that has gathered dust for years, a pressing need to refer to it will arise.

The crucial memorandum will be snared in the out-basket by the paper clip of the overlying correspondence and go to file.

No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse.

The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional to… to…

Any object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a larger object.

With extremely few exceptions, nothing is worth the trouble.

An expert is anyone from out of town.

The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.

All politics is local.

If it works, don't fix it.

The illness you come down with is the one ailment your company-covered insurance does not cover.

When you can’t discover the cause of a breakdown, all of the free advice you get will be for things you’ve already checked.

Any tool dropped while repairing an automobile will roll beneath the vehicle to its exact centre.

There is a solution to every problem; the only difficulty is finding it.

The more cordial the buyer’s secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.

Historical fancy is more persistent than historical fact.