Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 35)

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he/she shall not be disappointed.

The day of the big heat wave is the day the office air conditioning breaks down.

This will hurt me more than it hurts you.

1. Never use one word when a dozen will suffice.
2. If it can be understood, it's not finished yet.
3. Never be the first to do anything.

The specialist learns more and more about less and less until, finally, he knows everything about nothing; whereas the generalist learns less and less about more and more until, finally, he knows nothing about everything.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax.

When opportunity knocks, you’ve got headphones on.

You will never find any more loose change than you have already lost.

There is nothing so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.

The best simple-minded test of expertise in a particular area is the ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

Flattery is the sincerest form of lying.

The amount of trash accumulated within the space occupied is exponentially proportional to the number of living bodies that enter and leave within any given amount of time.

No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

There is no traffic until you need to make a left turn.

Any facts which, when included in the argument, give the desired result, are fair facts for the argument.

Never enter a battle of wits half-armed.

If you ask your husband to pick up five items at the store and then you add one more as an afterthought, he will forget two of the first five.

The comfort of turning 49 is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

Any order that can be misunderstood has been misunderstood.