Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 18)

We’re all going down the same road in different directions.

When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found to have been correct in the first place

Corollary: After the correction has been found in error, it will be impossible to fit the original quantity back into the equation.

Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.

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

[When parachuting] it is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

No matter what goes wrong, there’s always someone who will say he knew it would.

The wages of sin are unreported.

1. When in charge ponder
2. When in trouble delegate
3. When in doubt mumble.

By the time you get to the point where you can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Never tell them what you wouldn't do.

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Kids used to ask you where they came from – now they tell you where to go.

A $300 picture tube will protect a 10¢ fuse by blowing first.

The only things that start on time are those that you're late for.

Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.

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

By definition, when you are investigating the unknown, you do not know what you will find.

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

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

When you do not know what you are doing, do it neatly.

Everything takes longer than you think.