Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 54)

An expert is anyone from out of town.

One of the greatest unsolved riddles of restaurant eating is that the customer usually gets faster service when the restaurant is crowded than when it is half empty; it seems that the less the staff has to do, the slower they do it.

The more boring and out-of-date the magazines in the waiting room, the longer you will have to wait for your scheduled appointment.

About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

The other line moves faster.

Whenever an expert is confounded by a seemingly insoluble problem, the solution is immediately obvious to the first unqualified person who happens along.

Thinly sliced cabbage.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

Mines are equal opportunity weapons.

All battles are fought at the junction of two or more map sheets… printed at different scales.

Murphy's Law cannot be proven, yet is correct, as when you try to prove Murphy's Law, you will see that the proof is incorrect. This is obviously due to Murphy's Law, therefore Murphy's Law is correct and proven.

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

In order to get a loan you must first prove you don't need it.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

There's no time like the present for postponing what you don't want to do.

If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap.

Success can be insured only by devising a defense against failure of the contingency plan.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

A pair of scissors should be a true pair; the second pair is to be used in place of the pair that is never where it is always supposed to be.

In a bureaucratic hierarchy, the higher up the organization the less people appreciate Murphy's Law.

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