Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 37)

Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with ONLY a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.

Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.

No matter how careful one is in resealing the inner liner in a cereal box, it will tear where it is glued to the box.

You can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.

There comes a time when one must stop suggesting and evaluating new solutions, and get on with the job of analyzing and finally implementing one pretty good solution.

The first requisite of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces.

History doesn't repeat itself – historians merely repeat each other.

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

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

Try to look unimportant, because the bad guys may be low on ammo and not want to waste a bullet on you.

The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.

The faster the plane, the narrower the seats.

No man ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Whenever two fishing lines are contiguous, they will become continuous.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

The amount of expertise varies in inverse proportion to the number of statements understood by the general public.

No matter how many alterations, cheap pants never fit.

The one course you must take to graduate will not be offered during your last semester.

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