Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 44)

The only new show worth watching will be cancelled.

Those most opposed to serving on committees are made chairmen.

When a person says that, in the interest of saving time, he will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place.

The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfoolproof.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

When you are over the hill, you pick up speed.

Justice always prevails… three times out of seven.

Never bet on a loser because you think his luck is bound to change.

Any tool dropped while repairing an automobile will roll under the car to the vehicle's exact geographic center.

Winners tell funny stories; losers holler "Deal!"

One child is not enough, but two children are far too many.

If you buy bananas or avocados before they are ripe, there won't be any left by the time they are ripe. If you buy them ripe, they rot before they are eaten.

1. In dealing with their “own” problems, faculty members are the most extreme conservatives 2. In dealing with “other” people's problems, they are the world's most extreme liberals.

A dropped power tool will always land on the concrete instead of the soft ground (if outdoors) or the carpet (if indoors) – unless it is running, in which case it will fall on something it can damage (like your foot).

The deficiency will never show itself during the dry runs.

Never step in anything soft.

Fuses never blow during daylight hours.
Corollary: Only after fuses blow do you discover the flashlight batteries are dead and you’re out of candles, or matches, or both.

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretence of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

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

Some days it's better to stay in bed.