Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 43)

Flattery is the sincerest form of lying.

In a three story building served by one elevator, the elevator car will be on a floor where you are not.

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility, and vice versa.

If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistical methods.

Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster.

If you can't fix it, feature it.

Birthday parties always end in tears.

The army with the smartest dress uniform will lose.

You can never do merely one thing.

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

Love letters, business contracts and money due you always arrive three weeks late, whereas junk mail arrives the day it was sent.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong – but that’s the way to bet.

The number of person's relatives is directly proportional to his fame.

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

If a string has one end, it has another.

The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

If “sense” is so common, how come we don’t see more of it around?

1. A rolling stone gathers momentum.
2. Progress is nondirectional.

The only time to be positive is when you are positive you are wrong.

There is a tendency for the person in the most powerful position in an organization to spend all his time serving on committees and signing letters.