Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 45)

When a broken appliance is demonstrated to the repairman, it will work perfectly.

The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.

The guy you beat out of a prime parking space is the one you have to see for a job interview.

1. Never draw what you can copy.
2. Never copy what you can trace.
3. Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.

Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of 2 to 4 the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical.

1. Nothing is ever so bad it can't be made worse by firing the coach. 2. A free agent is anything but. 3. Whatever can go to New York will..

Find out the cost before you get in.

Birthday parties always end in tears.

The number of women a man find attractive is truly proportionate to his age.

All other things being equal, the side with the simplest uniforms wins.

Incoming fire has the right-of-way.

Go where the money is.

If you knew what you were doing, you'd probably be bored.

Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.

For every proverb that so confidently asserts its little bit of wisdom, there is usually an equal and opposite proverb that contradicts it.

Create the impression that you have already reached your level of incompetence.

Under current practices, both expenditures and revenues rise to meet each other, no matter which one may be in excess.

Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

You no sooner get your head above water than someone pulls your flippers off.

You can throw a burnt match out the window of your car and start a forest fire, but you can use two boxes of matches and a whole edition of the Sunday paper without being able to start a fire under the dry logs in your fireplace.

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.