Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 35)

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.

Much work, much food; little work, little food; no work, burial at sea.

If a taxpayer thinks he can cheat safely, he probably will.

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

No matter how many good tables are free, you will always be given the worst available.

A committee is the only life form with 12 stomachs and no brain.

One day you’re a peacock, the next day you’re a feather duster.

In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totaled correctly after 4:40 p.m. on Friday.

If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability.

Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.

The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

He who laughs last probably didn’t get the joke.

Successful research attracts the bigger grant which makes further research impossible.

A consultant may be defined as an unemployed practitioner.

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

All other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of the United States.

One and one does not necessarily make 11.

Speak with authority; however, expound only on the obvious and proven facts.

Any child who chatters nonstop at home will adamantly refuse to utter a word when requested to demonstrate for an audience.

Everyone is always someplace else.