Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 15)

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When you arrive at your chosen campsite, it is full.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Fools Individuals Intelligence Murphy’s Laws People

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician
Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations Things

Copying machines mangle only important documents.
Corollary: If a machine goes wild and runs off 180 copies, it will do so only when you are copying a personal letter.

Murphy’s Laws

When you move something to a more logical place, you only can remember where it used to be and your decision to move it.

Murphy’s Laws Things

A writer mustn’t shift your point of view.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

If you find yourself in front of your platoon they know something you don't.

Military Murphy’s Laws

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Murphy’s Laws

The total attention paid to an instructor is a constant regardless of the size of the class.

Education Murphy’s Laws School

A condominium is just an apartment with a down payment.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all.

Murphy’s Laws

Variables won't, constants aren't.

Murphy’s Laws

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

(1887 – 1943) theater critic & commentator
Murphy’s Laws

If you play with anything long enough, it will break.

Murphy’s Laws Things Time

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

Appearance Clothing Military Murphy’s Laws

Say no… then negotiate.

Murphy’s Laws

You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfoolproof.

Fools Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.

Government Money Murphy’s Laws

Only after locking your toolbox/shed at the end of a DIY job do you find another tool to return to your toolbox/shed.

Murphy’s Laws Things Time

The more zeros found in the price tag for a government program, the less Congressional scrutiny it will receive.

Congress Government Money Murphy’s Laws