Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 47)

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

These pills can't be habit-forming; I've been taking them for years.

The “Consumer Report” on the item will come out a week after you’ve made your purchase.
Corollaries: 1. The one you bought will be rated “unacceptable.”. 2. The one you almost bought will be rated “best buy.”

You never have the right number of pills left on the last day of a prescription.

The lagging activity in a project will invariably be found in the area where the highest overtime rates lie waiting.

About sentence fragments.

The more boring and out-of-date the magazines in the waiting room, the longer you will have to wait for your scheduled appointment.

Remember on your walk through life, the grass made greener on the other side of the fence is caused by “pasture pies.”

It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.

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.

Murphy's Law was not propounded by Murphy, but by another man with the same name.

The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required on it.

The length of time it takes a bill to pass through the legislature is in inverse proportion to the number of lobbying groups favoring it.

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much… then again, don’t drink too little.

Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

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

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

There is always a way… and it usually doesn’t work.

If you have to travel on a Titanic, why not go first-class?

If you wait, it will go away.