Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 4)

All buses heading in the opposite direction drive off the face of the earth and never return.

A little ignorance can go a long way.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.

Never enter a battle of wits half-armed.

When in doubt, empty the magazine.

All trails have more uphill sections than they have level or downhill sections.

In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totaled correctly after 4:40 p.m. on Friday.

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

(1888 – 1965) British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet

If you’re early, it’ll be cancelled. If you knock yourself out to be on time, you will have to wait. If you’re late, you will be too late.

If you want a track team to win the high jump you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it.

If it’s clean, it isn’t laundry.

If you take something apart and put it back together enough times, eventually you will have two of them.

At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.

All women marry beneath them.

Expressways aren’t.

Most people deserve each other.

All five-second grenade fuses will burn down in three seconds.

The grass is brown on both sides of the fence.

Ninety percent of “everything” is crud.

Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.