Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 49)

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Traffic congestion increases in proportion to the length of time the street is supervised by a traffic control officer.

Autos Government Murphy’s Laws

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

(1841–1919) French artist
Food/Drink Life Murphy’s Laws

It ain't necessarily so.

Murphy’s Laws

A taxpayer is someone who does not have to take a civil service exam in order to work for the government.

Government Murphy’s Laws Taxes

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.

Murphy’s Laws

If several things that could have gone wrong have not gone wrong, it would have been ultimately beneficial for them to have gone wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The only time you come up with a great solution is after somebody else has solved the problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The first pull on the cord ALWAYS sends the drapes in the wrong direction.

Murphy’s Laws Things

We may lay down a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people.

(1672 – 1719) English essasyist, poet & politician
Doctors Health Murphy’s Laws People

Good times end too quickly. Bad times go on forever.

Life Murphy’s Laws Situations Time

In a family recipe that you discovered in an old book, the most vital measurement will be illegible.

Cooking Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

There are only two problems with people: One is that they don't think; The other is that they do.

Murphy’s Laws People Problems Thinking

We are born naked, wet, and hungry; then things get worse.

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws

All women marry beneath them.

Marriage Murphy’s Laws Women

The world is more complicated than most of our theories make it out to be.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Places World

1. Always hire a rich solicitor.

2. Never buy from a rich salesman.

Lawyers Money Murphy’s Laws Wealth

Smile, tomorrow will be worse.

Murphy’s Laws

A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

Murphy’s Laws

The more boring and out-of-date the magazines in the waiting room, the longer you will have to wait for your scheduled appointment.

Health Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing Time

Nothing looks as good close up as it does from far away.

Appearance Murphy’s Laws

Whenever an expert is confounded by a seemingly insoluble problem, the solution is immediately obvious to the first unqualified person who happens along.

Murphy’s Laws