Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 54)

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

Military Murphy’s Laws

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong – but that’s the way to bet.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Sports

The price of any product produced for a government agency will be not less than the square of the initial Firm Fixed-Price Contract.

Government Money Murphy’s Laws

The hidden flaw never remains hidden.

Murphy’s Laws

If you have the facts on your side, hammer the facts. If you have the law on your side, hammer the law. If you have neither the facts nor the law, hammer the table.

Facts Government Law Murphy’s Laws

If you wait, it will go away.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Whatever a parent does is wrong.

Failure Family Murphy’s Laws Parents Problems Young

Anything is easier to take apart than it is to put together.

Murphy’s Laws Things

It's always darkest just before the lights go out.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

Much work, much food; little work, little food; no work, burial at sea.

Food/Drink Life Murphy’s Laws Work

1. The last gas station for 50 miles will be closed when you get there. 2. At the moment of any departure, the level of gas in your tank depends entirely on how late you are. 3. You only run out of gas after your wife tells you to stop for gas before you run out.

Autos Murphy’s Laws

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

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

The greater the funding, the longer it takes to make the mistake.

Mistakes Money Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

A 60-day warranty guarantees that the product will self-destruct on the 61st day.

Murphy’s Laws Things

The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

The most interesting results happen only once.

Murphy’s Laws

One child is not enough, but two children are far too many.

Children Family Murphy’s Laws

Among economists, the real world is often a special case.

Murphy’s Laws

Of two possible events, only the undesired one will occur.

Murphy’s Laws

There are no winners in life; only survivors.

Life Murphy’s Laws

Anything hit with a big enough hammer will fall apart.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Things