Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 36)

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Life Murphy’s Laws Time

Since no matter can be created or destroyed (excluding nuclear and cafeteria substances), as one attempts to remove unwanted material (i.e., trash) from one's living space, the remaining material mutates so as to occupy 30 to 50 percent more than its original volume.

Murphy’s Laws

Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average drivers.

Beliefs Driving Murphy’s Laws Opinion People

No name, no matter how simple, can be correctly understood over the phone.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Things

Enough research will tend to support your theory.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Work

If you help a friend in need, he is sure to remember you… the next time he’s in need.

Friends Murphy’s Laws Old People

Performance is directly affected by the perversity of inanimate objects.

Murphy’s Laws Things

A closed mouth gathers no feet.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

No child throws up in the bathroom.

Children Health Murphy’s Laws

To make an enemy, do someone a favor.

Murphy’s Laws People Situations

All-weather close air support doesn't work in bad weather.

Military Murphy’s Laws

Being in politics is like being a football coach: you have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it’s important.

Education Government Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Politics Sports

All women marry beneath them.

Marriage Murphy’s Laws Women

When a broken appliance is demonstrated to the repairman, it will work perfectly.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Doing it the hard way is always easier.

Murphy’s Laws

The object or bit of information most needed will be least available.

Murphy’s Laws

You can throw a burnt match out the window of your car and start a forest fire, but you can use two boxes of matches and a whole edition of the Sunday paper without being able to start a fire under the dry logs in your fireplace.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

The greater the funding, the longer it takes to make the mistake.

Mistakes Money Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

1. Nothing is ever so bad it can't be made worse by firing the coach. 2. A free agent is anything but. 3. Whatever can go to New York will..

Activities Murphy’s Laws New York City Places Sports

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

(1938 – ) U.S. governor (California) & politician
Murphy’s Laws Work

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Stupidity