Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 6)

The inefficiency and stupidity of the staff corresponds to the inefficiency and stupidity of the management.

The quality of a champagne is judged by the amount of noise the cork makes when it is popped.

When the camera focuses on a male athlete he will spit, pick or scratch.

In a restaurant with seats which are close to each other, one will always find the decibel level of the nearest conversation to be inversely proportional to the quality of the thought going into it.

It's bad luck to be superstititious.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong – but that’s the way to bet.

The first sample is always the best.

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.

No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right.

1. No action is without side-effects. 2. Nothing ever goes away. 3. There is no free lunch.

Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

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

Any member introducing a dog into the Society’s premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.

The cost of the hairdo is directly related to the strength of the wind.

A dropped object will fall with an acceleration of 32 feet per second per second, and if it is your wallet, it will make every effort to land in a public toilet.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.

The probability of winning is inversely proportional to the amount of the wager.

The day of the big heat wave is the day the office air conditioning breaks down.