Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 51)

A falling body always rolls to the most inaccessible spot.

By definition, when you are investigating the unknown, you do not know what you will find.

People with money live so damn long.

Those who expect the biggest tips provide the worst service.

Expressways aren’t.

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.

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

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages will be known far and wide as a smart-ass.

When a body is immersed in water, the telephone will ring.

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up.

If the enemy is in range, so are you!

No matter how many times you've had it, if it's offered, take it, because it'll never be quite the same again.

No matter which side of door the cat or dog is on, it's the wrong side.

Whenever a system becomes completely defined, someone discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.

The more qualified candidates who are available, the more likely the compromise will be on the candidate whose main qualification is a non-threatening incompetence.

Everyone who does not work has a scheme that does.

Those who cannot teach – administrate.

A dropped power tool will always land on the concrete instead of the soft ground (if outdoors) or the carpet (if indoors) – unless it is running, in which case it will fall on something it can damage (like your foot).

‘Push’ is the force exerted upon the door marked PULL.

The conclusions of most good operations research studies are obvious.

A fool in a high station is like a man on the top of a small mountain: everything appears small to him and he appears small to everybody.