Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 25)

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The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Travel

When the issue is trivial, and everyone understands it, debate is almost interminable.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Truck deliveries that normally take one day will take five when you are waiting for the truck.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.

Murphy’s Laws People

A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.

Murphy’s Laws Thinking

Murphy’s Law only fails when you try to demonstrate it.


Failure Murphy’s Laws

We may lay down a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people.

(1672 – 1719) English essasyist, poet & politician
Doctors Health Murphy’s Laws People

Don't use no double negatives.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel full of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel full of wine, you get sewage.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Sin now – pray later.

Murphy’s Laws

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

Communication Insults Murphy’s Laws

1. If you want something badly, that's how you get it. 2. Many "get-rich-quick" schemes make millionaires – out of multi-millionaries.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Pills to be taken in twos always come out of the bottle in threes.

Health Murphy’s Laws

When somebody drops something, everybody will kick it around instead of picking it up.

Murphy’s Laws

Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor’s course.

Education Learning Murphy’s Laws

Cut to fit – beat into place.

Murphy’s Laws

After large expenditures of federal, state, and county funds; after much confusion generated by detours and road blocks; after greatly annoying the surrounding population with noise, dust, and fumes – the previously existing traffic jam is relocated by one-half mile.

Autos Murphy’s Laws

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool Mom.

Mothers Murphy’s Laws People

Smile, tomorrow will be worse.

Murphy’s Laws

The grass is brown on both sides of the fence.

Death Murphy’s Laws