Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 6)

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The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Murphy’s Laws

Any paint, regardless of quality or composition, will adhere permanently to any surface, prepared or otherwise, if applied accidentally.

Murphy’s Laws Things

The amount of junk is in direct proportion to the amount of space available.

Murphy’s Laws Things

When a person says that, in the interest of saving time, he will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech Time

History does not repeat itself; historians simply repeat each other.

History Murphy’s Laws Time

Caveats are always* forgotten.
*Caveat: except in rare instances

Murphy’s Laws

It’s easy to tell when you’ve got a bargain – it doesn’t fit.

Activities Clothing Murphy’s Laws Shopping

A cigarette placed in an ashtray will go out if you stay in the room; if you leave the room, the cigarette will topple to the table, burn through, and drop to the floor, where it will smolder until it descends to ignite the drapes in the room below.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

Highways in the worst need of repair naturally have low traffic counts, which results in low priority for repair work.

Autos Murphy’s Laws

The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal.

Murphy’s Laws

Some object to the fan dancer, others to the fan.

Murphy’s Laws Opinion

It is the essence of grantsmanship to persuade the foundation executives that it was they who suggested the research project and that you were a belated convert, agreeing reluctantly to all they had proposed.

Murphy’s Laws

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

Driving Murphy’s Laws

In a family recipe that you discovered in an old book, the most vital measurement will be illegible.

Cooking Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

The cigarette smoke always drifts in the direction of the non-smoker regardless of the direction of the breeze.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Situations

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Murphy’s Laws

There is always one more bug.

Computers Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

Everything goes wrong all at once.

Murphy’s Laws Time

About sentence fragments.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

1. Get elected
2. Get re-elected
3. Don’t get mad, get even.

Anger Elections/Voting Emotions Government Murphy’s Laws Politicians