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When you drop change at a vending machine, the pennies will fall nearby, while all the other coins will roll out of sight.

Rush's Rule of Gravity

Money Murphy’s Laws Change Gravity

Then, of course, there's that old one: Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.

The 19 Rules for Good Riting - 18

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Any significant military action will occur at the junction of two or more map sheets.

Slim’s Law

Military Murphy’s Laws Field Marshal Viscount Slim Maps

If it is worth fighting for, it is worth fighting dirty for.

Bert's Bulwark

Conflict Fights Murphy’s Laws

No child throws up in the bathroom.

Laura's Law

Children Health Murphy’s Laws Bathrooms

If you are short of everything except enemy, you are in combat.

A Murphy's Military Law

Conflict Military Murphy’s Laws War Combat

Auditors always reject any expense account with a bottom line divisible by five or ten.

O'Brien's Principle (The $357.73 Theorem)

Money Murphy’s Laws Auditors Expense

Never say “oops” while your patient is conscious.

Stettner's Law for Surgeons

Doctors Health Murphy’s Laws Problems Patients

Talent in staff work or sales will recurrently be interpreted as managerial ability.

Boyle’s Fifth Law

Murphy’s Laws Managers

He who hesitates is probably right.

Bogovich's Law

Murphy’s Laws Hesitation

1. The length of stay of out-of-town guests is inversely proportional to their desirability. 2. There are three absolute maxims for the handyman – your garden hose, extension cord and ladder are always too short.

Willey’s Discoveries

Murphy’s Laws Boots Willey

If it’s good, they’ll stop making it.

Herbert Block (Herblock)

(1909 – 2001) editorial cartoonist & author

Murphy’s Laws Things Herblock’s Law Production

Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere within the organization.

Johnson's Corollary

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Knowledge Organizations

Things hate people.

Pruett's Law of Perversity

Murphy’s Laws People Things

The deficiency will never show itself during the dry runs.

boyl, Boyle's Law

Murphy’s Laws Problems Deficiencies

1. No matter how much you do, you'll never do enough. 2. What you don't do is always more important than what you do do.

Worker's Dilemma Law (or Management's Put-Down Law)

Murphy’s Laws Doing things Effort

If you start walking, the bus will come when you are precisely halfway between stops.

Rennie's Law of Public Transit

Murphy’s Laws Buses Transportation

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Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 11)

Caveats are always* forgotten.
*Caveat: except in rare instances

The cussedness of inanimate objects is beyond understanding.

The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack.

Density of fire increases proportionally to the curiousness of the target.

When you drop change at a vending machine, the pennies will fall nearby, while all the other coins will roll out of sight.

Then, of course, there's that old one: Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Any significant military action will occur at the junction of two or more map sheets.

If it is worth fighting for, it is worth fighting dirty for.

No child throws up in the bathroom.

If you are short of everything except enemy, you are in combat.

Auditors always reject any expense account with a bottom line divisible by five or ten.

Never say “oops” while your patient is conscious.

Talent in staff work or sales will recurrently be interpreted as managerial ability.

He who hesitates is probably right.

1. The length of stay of out-of-town guests is inversely proportional to their desirability. 2. There are three absolute maxims for the handyman – your garden hose, extension cord and ladder are always too short.

If it’s good, they’ll stop making it.

Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere within the organization.

Things hate people.

The deficiency will never show itself during the dry runs.

1. No matter how much you do, you'll never do enough. 2. What you don't do is always more important than what you do do.

If you start walking, the bus will come when you are precisely halfway between stops.