Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 57)

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The probability of meeting someone you know increases dramatically when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

Murphy’s Laws People Situations

If you knew what you were doing you'd probably be bored.

Murphy’s Laws

The Cavalry doesn’t always come to the rescue.

Military Murphy’s Laws

A flying particle will seek the nearest eye.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws

Virtue is its own punishment.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

The most important item in an order will no longer be available.

Murphy’s Laws Shopping

1. Never draw what you can copy.
2. Never copy what you can trace.
3. Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.

Murphy’s Laws Success

In a surplus labor economy, the squeaking wheel does not get the grease; it gets replaced.

Murphy’s Laws Occupations Work

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Children Eating Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

If you use a pole saw to saw a limb while standing on an aluminum ladder borrowed from your neighbor, the limb will fall in such a way as to bend the ladder before it knocks you to the ground.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability.

Murphy’s Laws

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible that you haven’t understood the situation.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Everything happens at the same time with nothing in between.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Time

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

Food/Drink Life Murphy’s Laws Time

If you view your problem closely enough, you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Self

A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.

Language Murphy’s Laws

Incoming fire has the right-of-way.

Military Murphy’s Laws

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Murphy’s Laws