Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 47)

If it works, don't fix it.

The illness you come down with is the one ailment your company-covered insurance does not cover.

If a situation requires undivided attention, it will occur simultaneously with a compelling distraction.


There is no such thing as a ‘little bit of garlic.’

It is better to have a horrible ending than to have horrors without end.

People will believe anything if you whisper it.

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong.

All trails have more uphill sections than they have level or downhill sections.

The best parts of anything are always impossible to remove from the worst parts.

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

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.

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

When you need towns, they are very far apart.

Flattery is the sincerest form of lying.

The tire is only flat on the bottom.

Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day’s work.

Reforms come from below; no man with four aces howls for a new deal.

Some mistakes are too fun to make only once.

A good review is considered nepotism; a bad one professional jealousy.

Thinly sliced cabbage.

Of two possible events, only the undesired one will occur.