Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 41)

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Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average drivers.

Beliefs Driving Murphy’s Laws Opinion People

The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability.

Murphy’s Laws

Regardless of whether a mission expands or contracts, administrative overhead continues to grow at a steady rate.

Murphy’s Laws

All laws are basically false.

Murphy’s Laws

Surprise is an event that takes place only in the mind of a commander.

Military Murphy’s Laws

You should have seen it when I got it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

Murphy’s Laws

One good turn gets most of the blanket.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

Fat is lost last where it is wanted the least. Corollary 1: Fat is lost first from areas of high desirability.
Corollary 2: With time fat flows from areas of high to low desirability. – Hal Belknap, M.D.

Appearance Body Fat Murphy’s Laws

A malfunctioning car will stop displaying symptoms of imminent breakdown when driven to within one-quarter mile of a garage.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

The only imperfect thing in nature is the human race.

Murphy’s Laws People

It requires less energy to take an object out of its proper place than to put it back.

Murphy’s Laws

The one you want is never the one on sale.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Shopping

Everybody lies; but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.

Characteristics Communication Honesty Lies Murphy’s Laws

Badness comes in waves.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

The lights are most likely to come back on at the precise moment you find the flashlight.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author
Murphy’s Laws Things

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

Communication Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Speech

A cigarette placed in an ashtray will go out if you stay in the room; if you leave the room, the cigarette will topple to the table, burn through, and drop to the floor, where it will smolder until it descends to ignite the drapes in the room below.

Murphy’s Laws

Life is a game, the object of which is to discover the object of the game.

Games Life Murphy’s Laws

Your pocket radio won't pick up the station you want to hear most.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws

Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.

Murphy’s Laws People Science/Weather