Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 41)

Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.

Committee reports dealing with wages, salaries, fringe benefits, facilities, computers, employee parking, libraries, coffee breaks, secretarial support, etc., always call for dramatic expenditure increases.

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

An object will fall so as to do the most damage.

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

(1938 – ) U.S. governor (California) & politician

The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support desperately

Corollary: Radar tends to fail at night and in bad weather, and especially during both

No matter how strong the breeze when you leave the dock, once you have reached the furthest point from port the wind will die.

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

Everyone wants to be noticed but no one wants to be stared at.

Whatever women do, they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good.

In a family recipe that you discovered in an old book, the most vital measurement will be illegible.

The one course you must take to graduate will not be offered during your last semester.

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don’t let anyone know it.

The first time you go out after your wife’s birthday, you will see the gift you gave her marked down fifty percent.
Corollary: If she’s with you, she’ll assume you chose it because it was cheap.

Only after locking your toolbox/shed at the end of a DIY job do you find another tool to return to your toolbox/shed.

The speed of an oncoming vehicle is directly proportional to the length of the passing zone.

Whatever you want, you can’t have, what you can have, you don’t want.

You climb the ladder of success easier when you lay it flat.

Unlimited warranties are usually neither.

Check to see if you any words out.