Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 50)

Whenever a superstar is traded to your favorite team, he fades. Whenever your team trades away a useless no-name, he immediately rises to stardom.

An intelligent person can make a dumber statement than an idiot. The idiot is limited to his imbecility.

20% of the customers account for 80% of the turnover, 20% of the components account for 80% of the cost, and so forth.

[When parachuting] it is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

History does not repeat itself; historians simply repeat each other.

You can’t get here from there.

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

Whatever goes us, stays up.

Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a bigger can.

The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.

The more carefully you plan a project, the more confusion there is when something goes wrong.

A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

Your best golf shots always occur when playing alone.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible that you haven’t understood the situation.

The one who snores will fall asleep first.

Beware of a day in which you don't have something to bitch about.

The speed of exit of a civil servant is directly proportional to the quality of his service.

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish yourself as an expert.

Once you overcome your fear of public speaking, you’ll never be asked to speak again.

Even paranoids have enemies.

No matter how often you trade dinner or other invitations with in-laws, you will lose a small fortune in the exchange.