Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 12)

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

If at first you don't succeed, call in an airstrike.

The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist

There are coexisting elements in frustration phenomena which separate expected results from achieved results.

Infinity is one lawyer waiting for another.

Some mistakes are too fun to make only once.

You will never find any more loose change than you have already lost.

If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because the worms are scarce.

The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.

Nothing is ever as simple as it first seems.

No one is as ugly as their passport photo.

A good review is considered nepotism; a bad one professional jealousy.

Just when you get really good at something you don’t need to do it anymore.

Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well-being.

There is no such thing as a short beer. (As in, "I'm going to stop off at Joe's for a short beer on the way home.")

The wrong quarterback is the one that’s in there.

Less is more.

When you are served a meal aboard an aircraft, the aircraft will encounter turbulence.

The time it takes to rectify a situation is inversely proportional to the time it took to do the damage.