Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 45)

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The one you want is never the one on sale.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Shopping

Things are never as bad as they turn out to be.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

The theory is supported as long as the funds are.

Murphy’s Laws

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

(1888 – 1965) British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet
Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

No experiment is ever a complete failure – it can always serve as a negative example.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

Education Government Murphy’s Laws Politics

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Murphy’s Laws

If you need four screws for the job, the first three are easy to find.

Murphy’s Laws Things

The most expensive component is the one that breaks.

Money Murphy’s Laws Things

The less you say, the less you have to take back.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

The chance of the bread falling with the butter side down is directly proportional to the value of the carpet.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

If on an actuarial basis there is a 50-50 chance that something will go wrong, it will actually go wrong nine times out of ten.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

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

Don’t force it; get a larger hammer.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Them what gets – has.

Murphy’s Laws People

Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.

Murphy’s Laws

To protect your position, fire the fastest rising employees first.

Murphy’s Laws People Situations Work

The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can get done sometime next week.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Everything tastes more or less like chicken.

Animals Eating Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple.

Murphy’s Laws