Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 39)

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Whatever a parent does is wrong.

Failure Family Murphy’s Laws Parents Problems Young

No matter how often the lie is shown to be false, there will still remain a percentage of people who believe it true.

Beliefs Honesty Lies Murphy’s Laws

At a bargain sale, the only suit or dress that you like best and that fits you is the one not in the sale.

Activities Clothing Murphy’s Laws Shopping

A good place to start from is where you are.

Murphy’s Laws

A simple story, however inaccurate or misleading, is preferred to a complicated explanation, however true.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

No matter where you are, there you are.

Murphy’s Laws Places

The perceived usefulness of an article is inversely proportional to its actual usefulness once bought and paid for.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Experiments should be reproducible… they should all fail in the same way.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Murphy’s Laws

In any human endeavour, once you have exhausted all possibilities and fail, there will be one solution, simple and obvious, highly visible to everyone else.

Murphy’s Laws

If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you may have misjudged the situation.

Military Murphy’s Laws

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages will be known far and wide as a smart-ass.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

If you find yourself in front of your platoon they know something you don't.

Military Murphy’s Laws

This will hurt me more than it hurts you.

Murphy’s Laws

One of the greatest unsolved riddles of restaurant eating is that the customer usually gets faster service when the restaurant is crowded than when it is half empty; it seems that the less the staff has to do, the slower they do it.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

If it looks easy, it's tough… if it looks tough, it's near impossible.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Situations

The rate of hospital admissions responds to bed availability; if we insist on installing more beds, they will tend to get filled.

Health Murphy’s Laws

The item you had your eye on the minute you walked in will be taken by the person in front of you.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.

Murphy’s Laws People

A flying particle will seek the nearest eye.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws

When you're up to your nose, keep your mouth shut.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations