Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 47)

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Among economists, the real world is often a special case.

Murphy’s Laws

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

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You know you're getting old when everything dries up or leaks.

Age Murphy’s Laws Old

Speak with authority; however, expound only on the obvious and proven facts.

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Money isn’t everything as long as you have enough.

Money Murphy’s Laws

We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The shortest route has the steepest hills.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Time

Whenever one word or letter can change the entire meaning of a sentence, the probability of an error being made will be in direct proportion to the embarrassment it will cause.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Speech

No matter how careful one is in resealing the inner liner in a cereal box, it will tear where it is glued to the box.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

If everybody wants it, nobody gets it.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Murphy’s Laws

Typesetters always correct intentional errors, but fail to correct unintentional ones.

Murphy’s Laws

When traveling with children… at least one child of any number of children will request a rest room stop exactly halfway between any two given rest areas.

Activities Children Family Murphy’s Laws Travel

There is no such thing as a short beer. (As in, "I'm going to stop off at Joe's for a short beer on the way home.")

Beer Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about.

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Competence always contains the seed of incompetence.

Murphy’s Laws

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

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The label "NEW" and/or "IMPROVED" means the price went up.

Murphy’s Laws Shopping Things

Never conduct negotiations before 10:00 a.m. or after 4:00 p.m. Before 10:00 you appear too anxious, and after 4:00 they think you're desperate.

Murphy’s Laws

By definition, when you are investigating the unknown, you do not know what you will find.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws