Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 39)

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All women marry beneath them.

Marriage Murphy’s Laws Women

All great discoveries are made by mistake

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

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Variables won't, constants aren't.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Military Murphy’s Laws

If you allow someone to get in front of you, you both will have the same destination, and the other car will get the last parking space.

Driving Murphy’s Laws

Our customer's paperwork is profit. Our own paperwork is loss.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Fuses never blow during daylight hours.
Corollary: Only after fuses blow do you discover the flashlight batteries are dead and you’re out of candles, or matches, or both.

Murphy’s Laws Things

The faster the plane, the narrower the seats.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Travel

1. If you can get to the faulty part, you won't have the tool to get it off. 2. If you can get the part off, the parts house will have it back ordered. 3. If it's in stock, it didn't need replacing in the first place.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

A watched pot never boils over.

Murphy’s Laws

The most expensive component is the one that breaks.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

If Congress must do a painful thing, the thing must be done in an odd-number year.

Congress Government Murphy’s Laws Time

Never eat prunes when you're hungry.

Eating Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

When a person says that, in the interest of saving time, he will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech Time

If you do not understand a particular word in a piece of technical writing, ignore it; the piece will make perfect sense without it.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Understanding

If “sense” is so common, how come we don’t see more of it around?

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

On a beautiful day like this it's hard to believe anyone can be unhappy – but we'll work on it.

Emotions Happiness Murphy’s Laws

The less you know about an opportunity, the more attractive it is.

Murphy’s Laws

An object will fall so as to do the most damage.

Murphy’s Laws

Washington is a much better place if you are asking questions rather than answering them.

Murphy’s Laws Places