Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 60)

All rush jobs are due the same day.

Spend sufficient time confirming the need and the need will disappear.

Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least.

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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

The better the four-wheel drive, the further away you'll be when you get stuck.

Murphy’s Law never fails except when you try to demonstrate it.

Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

To make an enemy, do someone a favor.

If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

To make an enemy, do someone a favor.

Verbs has to agree with their subject.

Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we."

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

In approaching a double door, you will always go to the one door that is locked, pull when you should have pushed, and push when the sign says pull.

One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.

It isn't that things will necessarily go wrong (Murphy's Law), but rather that they will take so much more time and effort than you think if they are not to go wrong.

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

Bare feet magnetize sharp metal objects so they always point upwards from the floor… especially in the dark.

A biscuit takes up moisture when it goes stale and becomes limp; a cake loses moisture and becomes hard.

Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book.