Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 4)

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.

It goes in – it must come out.

Anything that happens enough times to irritate you will happen at least once more.

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts – not the facts themselves.

By the time you get to the point where you can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

If you play with anything long enough, it will break.

1. Nothing minor ever happens to a car on the weekend. 2. Nothing minor ever happens to a car on a trip. 3. Nothing minor ever happens to a car.

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

Whenever you lose contact with the enemy, look behind you.

The chances of anybody doing anything are inversely proportional to the number of other people who are in a position to do it instead.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved with the broth.

The less you say, the less you have to take back.

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

With extremely few exceptions, nothing is worth the trouble.

If you don’t feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time you get there you’ll feel better; but don’t make an appointment, and you’ll stay sick.

When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience will get the money and the person with the money will get some experience.

Passengers on elevators constantly rearrange their positions as people get on and off so there is at all times an equal distance between all bodies.

A bachelor can only chase a girl until she catches him.

Claim victory and retreat.

1. Never play cards with a man called Doc.
2. Never eat at a place called Mom's.
3. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.