Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 19)

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A consultant is someone who, when hired to find out what time it is, borrows your watch to find out.

Money Murphy’s Laws

To err is human; to really foul things up takes a computer.

Computers Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

You no sooner get your head above water than someone pulls your flippers off.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

The last person who quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong – until the next person quits or is fired.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Problems

If you don't need it and don't want it you can have tons of it.

Murphy’s Laws

If you take your boots off, you'll never get them back on again.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Appearance Clothing Military Murphy’s Laws

An unbreakable toy is good for breaking other toys.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will find a need for them an hour later.

Murphy’s Laws

It will always break just when you need it the most.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

There are four kinds of people: those who sit quietly and do nothing, those who talk about sitting quietly and doing nothing, those who do things, and those who talk about doing things.

Communication Murphy’s Laws People Speech

You can go home again – you just can’t stay there.

Murphy’s Laws Places

The less we know about a disease, the more medicines are available to treat it.

Health Murphy’s Laws

Anything asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Beliefs Facts Murphy’s Laws

Any renovation project on an old house will cost twice as much and take three times as long as originally estimated.

Money Murphy’s Laws Time

Nothing is easy.

Life Murphy’s Laws Problems

Circumstances can force a generalized incompetent to become competent, at least in a specialized field.

Murphy’s Laws

The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its importance.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

In a surplus labor economy, the squeaking wheel does not get the grease; it gets replaced.

Murphy’s Laws Occupations Work

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you; tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws

Grass growing from sidewalk cracks never turns brown.

Murphy’s Laws