Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 41)

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.

As soon as you mention something, if it's good, it goes away; if it's bad, it happens.

On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease.

Super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence.

An intelligent person can make a dumber statement than an idiot. The idiot is limited to his imbecility.

Progress is made on alternate Fridays.

The effectiveness of a politician varies in inverse proportion to his commitment to principle.

If there are only two shows worth watching, they will be on at the same time.

The wages of sin are unreported.

If you can't learn to do it well, you should learn to enjoy doing it badly.

Say no… then negotiate.

The Cavalry doesn’t always come to the rescue.

The grass is brown on both sides of the fence.

The probability of a young man meeting a desirable and receptive young female increases by pyramidal progression when he is already in the company of: 1. a date, 2.his wife, 3. a better looking and richer male friend.

The most delicate component will be dropped.

If you change lines, the one you just left will start to move faster than the one you are now in.

The bag that breaks is the one with the eggs.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Give him an inch and he'll screw you.

If you take your boots off, you'll never get them back on again.

No one is as ugly as their passport photo.