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A mediocre player will sink to the level of his or her opposition.

Games Murphy’s Laws Sports

No matter how long it takes for you to get back to pick up the shoes the shoemaker will tell you that they won't be ready until tomorrow.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

1 + 1 hardly ever equals 2.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The only way to make up for being lost is to make record time while you are lost.

Activities Autos Driving Murphy’s Laws

The First Law of Economists: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist.
The Second Law of Economists: They're both wrong.

Murphy’s Laws

Absolutum obsoletum – If it works, it’s out of date.

Murphy’s Laws Things Time

Winners tell funny stories; losers holler "Deal!"

Murphy’s Laws People

This will hurt me more than it hurts you.

Murphy’s Laws

It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.

Health Money Murphy’s Laws Wealth

1. A rolling stone gathers momentum.
2. Progress is nondirectional.

Murphy’s Laws

The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle.

Murphy’s Laws

To err is human; to really foul things up takes a computer.

Computers Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

You cannot tell for certain, ahead of time, which side of the bread to put the butter on.

Murphy’s Laws

The more cordial the buyer’s secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.

Murphy’s Laws

In a surplus labor economy, the squeaking wheel does not get the grease; it gets replaced.

Murphy’s Laws Occupations Work

The cigarette smoke always drifts in the direction of the non-smoker regardless of the direction of the breeze.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Situations

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.

Murphy’s Laws

Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there.

Murphy’s Laws

Design flaws travel in groups.

Murphy’s Laws

The best simple-minded test of expertise in a particular area is the ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

Money Murphy’s Laws

If everybody wants it, nobody gets it.

Murphy’s Laws Situations