Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 52)

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1. A rolling stone gathers momentum.
2. Progress is nondirectional.

Murphy’s Laws

The rate of hospital admissions responds to bed availability; if we insist on installing more beds, they will tend to get filled.

Health Murphy’s Laws

No matter which direction you start it’s always against the wind coming back.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

If it feels good, it’s ugly. If it looks good, it hurts.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Shopping

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

History Murphy’s Laws Time

The person who buys the most raffle tickets has the least chance of winning.

Murphy’s Laws

If the converse of a statement is absurd, the original statement is an insult to the intelligence and should never have been said.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Speech

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

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least.

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Characteristics Murphy’s Laws People

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

What we learn after we know it all, is what counts.

Education Learning Murphy’s Laws

Caveats are always* forgotten.
*Caveat: except in rare instances

Murphy’s Laws

If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush.

Military Murphy’s Laws

It will always break just when you need it the most.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Things that must be together to work usually can't be shipped together; things which must be shipped together as a set, aren't.

Murphy’s Laws

Anybody can win – unless there happens to be a second entry.

Murphy’s Laws

You should have seen it when I got it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed.

Murphy’s Laws Work

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing Time

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

Money Murphy’s Laws

Never eat prunes when you're hungry.

Eating Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws