Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 54)

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Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't.

Arms Government Military Murphy’s Laws

You can’t lose an old golf ball.

Golf Murphy’s Laws Sports

A cigarette placed in an ashtray will go out if you stay in the room; if you leave the room, the cigarette will topple to the table, burn through, and drop to the floor, where it will smolder until it descends to ignite the drapes in the room below.

Murphy’s Laws

The weight of your pack increases in direct proportion to the amount of food you consume from it; if you run out of food, the pack weight goes on increasing anyway.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.

Murphy’s Laws Time

All the good ones are taken.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

A professional is one who does a good job even when he doesn't feel like it.

Murphy’s Laws Occupations Work

If you have only one nail, it will bend.

Murphy’s Laws

No two identical parts are alike.

Murphy’s Laws

You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

Then, of course, there's that old one: Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

There’s an unseen force which lets birds know when you’ve just washed your car.

(1922 – ) English comedy writer & television presenter
Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

Evil is live spelled backwards.
Corollary: If it feels good, don't do it.

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws

1. If it is green or it wiggles – it is Biology.
2. If it stinks – it is Chemistry.
3. If it doesn’t work – it is Physics.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Science/Weather

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

(1887 – 1943) theater critic & commentator
Murphy’s Laws

A committee of three gets things done if two don’t show up.

Murphy’s Laws People

Success is the result of behavior that completely contradicts the usual expectations about the behavior of a successful person.

Murphy’s Laws Success

Once the erosion of power begins, it has a momentum all its own.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

If only one solution can be found for a field problem, then it is usually a stupid solution.

Military Murphy’s Laws Problems

The day of the big heat wave is the day the office air conditioning breaks down.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

1. Important mail arrives late. 2. Junk mail arrives the day it was sent.

Murphy’s Laws Time