Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 56)

Paper is always strongest at the perforations.

If it tastes good, you can't have it; if it tastes awful, you'd better clean your plate.

The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)

There is an exception to all laws.

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

The wrong quarterback is the one that’s in there.

When dangling, don't use participles.

For every problem science solves, it creates ten new one.

No matter how many times you've had it, if it's offered, take it, because it'll never be quite the same again.

Things always go from bad to worse.

Any renovation project on an old house will cost twice as much and take three times as long as originally estimated.

Those who live closest arrive latest.

We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction.

Any task worth doing was worth doing yesterday.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Any decision is better than no decision.

The total attention paid to an instructor is a constant regardless of the size of the class.

Whenever you decide to take the kids home, it is always five minutes earlier that they break into fights, tears, or hysteria.

If you can be off by one… you will be.

If you want a track team to win the high jump you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot.

Anything may be divided into as many parts as you please.