Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 56)

Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.

A watched pot never boils over.

No books are lost by loaning except those you particularly wanted to keep.

If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again.

The shortest route has the steepest hills.

If you think you're wrong, you're wrong

Corollary: If you think you're wrong, you're right.

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

Halitosis is better than no breath at all.

Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.

Anything is edible if it is chopped finely enough.

1. The more tangled your line is, the better the fishing is around you. 2. The time available to go fishing shrinks as the fishing season draws nearer. 3. The least experienced fisherman always catches the biggest fish.
Corollary: The more elaborate and costly the equipment, the greater chance of having to stop at the fish market on the way home.

Anything asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

There is always one more son of a bitch than you counted on.

You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

You will save yourself a lot of needless worry if you don't burn your bridges until you come to them.

In a bureaucracy, accomplishment is inversely proportional to the volume of paper used.

1. Fat expands to fill any apparel worn.
2. A fat person walks in the middle of the hall.

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

You can throw a burnt match out the window of your car and start a forest fire, but you can use two boxes of matches and a whole edition of the Sunday paper without being able to start a fire under the dry logs in your fireplace.