Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 58)

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If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Marriage Men Murphy’s Laws People Wives

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.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Sports

When you are right, be logical; when you are wrong, be-fuddle.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

There is no proposition, no matter how foolish, for which a dozen Nobel signatures cannot be collected.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

If you're going to rape, pillage and burn, be sure to do things in that order.

Murphy’s Laws

1. When in charge ponder
2. When in trouble delegate
3. When in doubt mumble.

Murphy’s Laws Speech

Fortify your front; you’ll get your rear shot up.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The army with the smartest dress uniform will lose.

Conflict Military Murphy’s Laws

The length of a progress report is inversely proportional to the amount of progress.

Murphy’s Laws

Incompetence tends to increase with the level of work performed. And naturally the individual’s staff needs will increase as his level of incompetence increases.

Murphy’s Laws Work

If you dance with a grizzly bear, you had better let him lead.

Murphy’s Laws

The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its importance.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you.

Characteristics Military Murphy’s Laws

In any organization, the potential is much greater for the subordinate to manage his superior than for the superior to manage his subordinate.

Murphy’s Laws

1. The tide comes in and the tide goes out, and what have you got?
2. They say an elephant never forgets, but what's he got to remember?

Murphy’s Laws

Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a bigger can.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

A writer mustn’t shift your point of view.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Whatever a parent does is wrong.

Failure Family Murphy’s Laws Parents Problems Young

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Truth

When a politician gets an idea, he usually gets it wrong.

Ideas Murphy’s Laws Politicians