Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 37)

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No politician talks taxes during an election year.

Elections/Voting Government Murphy’s Laws Politicians Taxes

Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Communication Education Murphy’s Laws

Any significant military action will occur at the junction of two or more map sheets.

Military Murphy’s Laws

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Murphy’s Laws

Most projects require three hands.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

All trails have more uphill sections than they have level or downhill sections.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

Education Government Murphy’s Laws Politics

Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check.

Money Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Things

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

Ninety percent of “everything” is crud.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Things

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

Murphy’s Laws

Absolutum obsoletum – if it works, it’s out of date.

(1926 – 2002) British management theorist & professor
Murphy’s Laws Time

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

If an item is advertised as "under $50," you can bet it's not $19.95.

Murphy’s Laws Shopping

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Government Murphy’s Laws Politics

If you drop something, it will never reach the ground.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way.

Murphy’s Laws

The job that pays the most will be offered when there is no time to deliver the services.

Murphy’s Laws Work

Anybody can win – unless there happens to be a second entry.

Murphy’s Laws

Procrastination shortens the job and places the responsibility for its termination on someone else (i.e., the authority who imposed the deadline.)

Murphy’s Laws

In a three story building served by one elevator, the elevator car will be on a floor where you are not.

Murphy’s Laws