Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 5)

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In any group of eagles, you will find some turkeys.

Murphy’s Laws People

It won't work.

Murphy’s Laws

A valuable dropped item will always fall into an inaccessible place (a diamond ring down the drain, for example) – or into the garbage disposal while it is running.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

If you want a track team to win the high jump you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot.

Murphy’s Laws Sports Success

The quality of a champagne is judged by the amount of noise the cork makes when it is popped.

Alcohol Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Everyone has a scheme that will not work.

Murphy’s Laws People

If your action has a 50% possibility of being correct, you will be wrong 75% of the time.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

When there is a very long road upon which there is a one-way bridge placed at random, and there are only two cars on that road, it follows that: (1) the two cars are going in opposite directions, and (2) they will always meet at the bridge.

Activities Autos Driving Murphy’s Laws Travel

1. Any line, however short, is still too long.
2. Work is the crabgrass of life, but money is the water that keeps it green.

Murphy’s Laws Work

Every great idea has a disadvantage equal to or exceeding the greatness of the idea.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.

Life Murphy’s Laws

No matter what the experiment’s result, there will always be someone eager to: (a) misinterpret it, (b) fake it, or (c) believe it supports his own pet theory.

Murphy’s Laws

Assumption is the mother of all foul-ups.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

The incidence of anything worthwhile is either 15-25 percent or 80-90 percent.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.

Murphy’s Laws

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Communication History Murphy’s Laws Speech

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Murphy’s Laws

Research is reading two books that have never been read in order to write a third that will never be read.

Books Communication Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

When somebody drops something, everybody will kick it around instead of picking it up.

Murphy’s Laws

The hardness of the butter is in direct proportion to the softness of the roll.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws