Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 31)

If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges.

There are coexisting elements in frustration phenomena which separate expected results from achieved results.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Of two possible events, only the undesired one will occur.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

There's no time like the present for postponing what you don't want to do.

One important fact about Murphy's Law was that it was not actually coined by Murphy, but by another man of the same name.

Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day’s work.

The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time you have to do anything. Stability is achieved when you spend all your time doing nothing but reporting on the nothing you are doing.

Never read any book in which the author’s name appears in gold or silver on the cover.

Anything worth doing is worth doing in excess.

After things have gone from bad to worse, the cycle will repeat itself.

If you can’t get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Time moves slower in a fast moving vehicle.

These pills can't be habit-forming; I've been taking them for years.

If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented, it wasn't worth doing.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part you didn't think was important.

One child is not enough, but two children are far too many.

It’s better to be tried by twelve men than to be carried by six.

When traveling with children… at least one child of any number of children will request a rest room stop exactly halfway between any two given rest areas.

Nothing is so simple it cannot be misunderstood.