Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 53)

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Every great idea has a disadvantage equal to or exceeding the greatness of the idea.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.

Murphy’s Laws

No matter how many alterations, cheap pants never fit.

Appearance Clothing Murphy’s Laws

If you don’t feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time you get there you’ll feel better; but don’t make an appointment, and you’ll stay sick.

Doctors Health Murphy’s Laws

Only adults have difficulty with child-proof bottles.

Health Murphy’s Laws People

In a bureaucracy, good ideas go to too far.

Murphy’s Laws

Watch out for irregular verbs which has cropped up into our language.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn't read.

Education Murphy’s Laws School

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Murphy’s Laws

There are 32 points to the compass, meaning that there are 32 directions in which a spoon can squirt grapefruit; yet, the juice almost invariably flies straight into the human eye.

Murphy’s Laws

People would rather live with a problem they cannot solve than accept a solution they cannot understand.

Murphy’s Laws

Nothing is ever done for the right reason.

Murphy’s Laws

Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness.

Murphy’s Laws

The grass is brown on both sides of the fence.

Death Murphy’s Laws

A liar should have a good memory.

Memory Murphy’s Laws People

The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in direct proportion to the size of the error.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

Everyone is always someplace else.

Murphy’s Laws Places

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which speciified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind; Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly.

(1923 – 1999) American satirical novelist, short story writer & playwright
Murphy’s Laws

If only two cars are left in a vast parking lot, one will be blocking the other.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

When there is a very long road upon which there is a one-way bridge placed at random, and there are only two cars on that road, it follows that: (1) the two cars are going in opposite directions, and (2) they will always meet at the bridge.

Activities Autos Driving Murphy’s Laws Travel

There is always an easier way to do it.
Corollary: When looking directly at the easier way, especially for long periods, you will not see it.

Murphy’s Laws