Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 42)

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Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

Baseball Murphy’s Laws Sports

Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will find a need for them an hour later.

Murphy’s Laws

Bad law is more likely to be supplemented than repealed.

Government Murphy’s Laws

The net weight of your boots is proportional to the cube of the number of hours you have been on the trail.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

An object at rest will be in the wrong place.

Murphy’s Laws Things

1. Any great truth can – and eventually will – be expressed as a cliche.

2. Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

Communication Facts Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.

Murphy’s Laws People

If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws

Flattery is the sincerest form of lying.

Honesty Lies Murphy’s Laws

There is no limit to how bad things can get.

Murphy’s Laws

Any object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a larger object.

Murphy’s Laws Things

First Things First, but not necessarily in that order.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Any military project will take twice as long as planned, cost twice as much, and produce only half of what is wanted.

Military Murphy’s Laws

McGurk's Law

Murphy’s Laws

Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence in their colleagues.

Murphy’s Laws People

If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented, it wasn't worth doing.

Murphy’s Laws

If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you may have misjudged the situation.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The crucial memorandum will be snared in the out-basket by the paper clip of the overlying correspondence and go to file.

Communication 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

If it can be borrowed and it can be broken, you will borrow it and you will break it.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws Success