Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 36)

If you can’t navigate a one-level, five-item phone tree, you didn’t need a computer anyway.

Possessions increase to fill the space available for their storage.

First Things First, but not necessarily in that order.

The book or periodical most vital to the completion of your term paper will be missing from the library.

Corollary: If it is available, the most important page will be torn out.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

If there isn’t a law there will be.

The usefulness of any meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

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

The more an item costs, the farther you have to send it for repairs.

Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

(1918 – 1990) American aerospace engineer

People will believe anything if you whisper it.

Don't use commas, which aren't necessary.

1. Any line, however short, is still too long.
2. Work is the crabgrass of life, but money is the water that keeps it green.

Two wrongs are only the beginning.

A falling body always rolls to the most inaccessible spot.

1. No matter what they're telling you, they're not telling you the whole truth. 2. No matter what they're talking about, they're talking about money.

Don't worry… nobody gives a hoot anyway.

After a salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you had before.

You know you have it when you can’t think of anything that’s your own fault.

The best parts of anything are always impossible to remove from the worst parts.

Don’t draw fire, it irritates the people around you.