Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 52)

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The most valuable quotation will be the one for which you cannot determine the source.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Elections/Voting Fools Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel full of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel full of wine, you get sewage.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

As soon as the stewardess serves the coffee, the airliner encounters turbulence.
Davis's Explanation of Roger's Law: Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.

Murphy’s Laws Travel

Check to see if you any words out.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Confusion creates jobs.

Murphy’s Laws Work

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Success

There must be one day above all others in each life that is the happiest

Corollary: What if you’ve already had it?

Emotions Happiness Murphy’s Laws Time

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 the assumptions are wrong, the conclusions aren't likely to be very good.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Government Law Murphy’s Laws

A body at rest tends to watch television.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws Television

Most jobs resemble a sled dog team: no one gets a change of scenery, except the lead dog.

Animals Dogs Murphy’s Laws Situations Work

The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may diet.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Wordplay

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

History Murphy’s Laws Time

Absolutum obsoletum – if it works, it’s out of date.

(1926 – 2002) British management theorist & professor
Murphy’s Laws Time

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much… then again, don’t drink too little.

Age Alcohol Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Old

Anything dropped in the bathroom falls in the toilet.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws

Incompetence tends to increase with the level of work performed. And naturally the individual’s staff needs will increase as his level of incompetence increases.

Murphy’s Laws Work

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

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws