Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 35)

A Woman's Rule of Thumb: If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it.

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.

Nothing will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.

If a research project is not worth doing at all, it is not worth doing well.

Ideas endure and prosper in inverse proportion to their soundness and validity.

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much… then again, don’t drink too little.

Doctors, dentists, and lawyers are only on time for appointments when you’re not.

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Just between you and I, case is important.

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

It's always darkest just before the lights go out.

If the converse of a statement is absurd, the original statement is an insult to the intelligence and should never have been said.

If you wait, it will go away.

The best way to publicize a governmental or political action is to attempt to hide it.

This will hurt me more than it hurts you.

The cost of the hairdo is directly related to the strength of the wind.

People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent; people who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

Everything else causes cancer in rats.

If rats are experimented upon, they will develop cancer.