Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 32)

How attractive a given person appears to be is directly proportionate to how unattractive your date is.

Never try to replicate a successful experiment.

People specialize in their area of greatest weakness.

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

The best shots are generally attempted through the lens cap.

The driver behind you wants to go five miles per hour faster.

It (housework) expands to fill the time available plus half an hour: so obviously it is never finished.

If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

(1887 – 1943) theater critic & commentator

The average time between throwing something away and needing it badly is two weeks. This time can be reduced to one week by retaining the thing for a long time first.

A retreating enemy is probably just falling back and regrouping.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

1. Never play cards with a man called Doc.
2. Never eat at a place called Mom's.
3. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.

Democracy is that form of government where everybody gets what the majority deserves.

Toothaches tend to start on Saturday night.

The bigger the man, the less likely he is to object to caricature.

More dirt comes out of a hole than you can get back into it.

If it can be borrowed and it can be broken, you will borrow it and you will break it.

Everything goes wrong all at once.