Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 40)

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The only way a reporter should look at a politician is down.

Government Murphy’s Laws Opinion Politicians

The amount of flak received on any subject is inversely proportional to the subject’s true value.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want.

Murphy’s Laws Success

As soon as you’re doing what you wanted to be doing, you want to be doing something else.

Life Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws Things Time

A necessary item goes on sale only after you have purchased it at the regular price.

Murphy’s Laws Shopping Things

Far-away talent always seems better than home-developed talent.


Murphy’s Laws People

Far-away talent always seems better than home-developed talent.

Murphy’s Laws People

The most powerful force in the world is that of a disc straining to land under a car, just beyond reach.

Murphy’s Laws

It is impossible to distinguish, from a distance, whether the bureaucrats associated with your project are simply sitting on their hands, or frantically trying to cover their asses.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Whenever an expert is confounded by a seemingly insoluble problem, the solution is immediately obvious to the first unqualified person who happens along.

Murphy’s Laws

I called my lawyer and said, ‘Can I ask you two questions?’ He said, ‘What’s the second question?

Government Lawyers Murphy’s Laws

You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

A lone dime always gets the number nearly right.

Murphy’s Laws

The pay raise is just large enough to increase your taxes and just small enough to have no effect on your take-home pay.

Government Money Murphy’s Laws Taxes

If a computer cable has one end, then it has another.

Computers Murphy’s Laws Things

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Health Military Murphy’s Laws

Any technical problem can be overcome given enough time and money.

Lerman's Corollary: You are never given enough time or money.

Money Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

All probabilities are 50%; either a thing will happen or it won't.

Murphy’s Laws

A martyr is a hero who didn't make it.

Murphy’s Laws

If a piece of buttered toast falls, it will land face down.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws