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Murphy’s Laws
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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.
Knox's Principle of Star Quality
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
Sports
Success
An intelligent person can make a dumber statement than an idiot. The idiot is limited to his imbecility.
Shomaker's Law
Communication
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
Speech
20% of the customers account for 80% of the turnover, 20% of the components account for 80% of the cost, and so forth.
Pareto's Law (The 20/80 Law)
Murphy’s Laws
Business
Customers
[When parachuting] it is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.
A Murphy's Military Law
Military
Murphy’s Laws
Parachutes
History does not repeat itself; historians simply repeat each other.
History
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Historians
Otto Bettman
You can’t get here from there.
Young's Comment on Scientific Method
Murphy’s Laws
A good review is considered nepotism; a bad one professional jealousy.
Armitstead's Law of Book Reviewing
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Opinion
Criticism
Whatever goes us, stays up.
Park's Law of Insurance Rates and Taxes
Government
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Taxes
Prices
Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a bigger can.
Zymurgy's First Law of Systems Dynamics
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Can of worms
Conrad Schneiker
The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.
Korman's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Temptation
The more carefully you plan a project, the more confusion there is when something goes wrong.
Fourth Workshop Principle
Murphy’s Laws
Confusion
Planning
A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
Issawi's Law of the Path of Progress
Murphy’s Laws
Distance
Shortcuts
Your best golf shots always occur when playing alone.
Anonymous Murphy’s Law
Golf
Murphy’s Laws
People
Sports
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible that you haven’t understood the situation.
Kerr's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Situations
Jean Kerr
The one who snores will fall asleep first.
Proverb
Murphy’s Laws
Proverbs
Situations
Sleep
Snoring
Beware of a day in which you don't have something to bitch about.
Kranske's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Bitch
Complain
The speed of exit of a civil servant is directly proportional to the quality of his service.
Nader's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Science/Weather
Work
Civil servants
Quality
Speed
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish yourself as an expert.
Ryan's Law
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
Situations
Expert
Guessing
Once you overcome your fear of public speaking, you’ll never be asked to speak again.
Batts Second Law
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Speech
Al Batt
Even paranoids have enemies.
Pastore's Truth
Murphy’s Laws
People
(Also Delmore Schwartz)
Enemies
Paranoia
No matter how often you trade dinner or other invitations with in-laws, you will lose a small fortune in the exchange.
Clark's First Law of Relativity
Family
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Relationships
In-laws
Invitations
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