Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 2)

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The child that divides gets last pick.

Children Murphy’s Laws

A cigarette placed in an ashtray will go out if you stay in the room; if you leave the room, the cigarette will topple to the table, burn through, and drop to the floor, where it will smolder until it descends to ignite the drapes in the room below.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

Education is the process of moving from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

Education Murphy’s Laws

The number of rational hypotheses that can explain any given phenomenon is infinite.

Murphy’s Laws

A simple story, however inaccurate or misleading, is preferred to a complicated explanation, however true.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

The distance you have to park from your apartment increases in proportion to the weight of packages you are carrying.

Autos Murphy’s Laws

When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

Eating Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

No politician talks taxes during an election year.

Elections/Voting Government Murphy’s Laws Politicians Taxes

A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years.

Computers Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Things Time

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

Life Murphy’s Laws

 It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

History Memory Murphy’s Laws

If everybody wants it, nobody gets it.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

The rate of hospital admissions responds to bed availability; if we insist on installing more beds, they will tend to get filled.

Health Murphy’s Laws

Twitter makes you like people you don’t know, and Facebook makes you hate people you do.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Murphy was an optimist.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

If at first you don’t succeed, read the manual.

Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he/she shall not be disappointed.

Murphy’s Laws

In any dealings with a collective body of people, the people will always be more tacky than originally expected.

Murphy’s Laws People

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Intelligence Memory Murphy’s Laws Women

The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map.

Military Murphy’s Laws War

There is a solution to every problem; the only difficulty is finding it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems