Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 61)

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

Murphy’s Laws

Internal consistency is valued more highly than efficiency.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws

Government intervention in the free market always leads to a lower national standard of living.

Government Murphy’s Laws

A bus will arrive only when the would-be rider has walked to a point so close to the destination that it is no longer worthwhile to board the bus.

Murphy’s Laws

If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy.

Military Murphy’s Laws

When somebody drops something, everybody will kick it around instead of picking it up.

Murphy’s Laws

If you start to clean your desk in the spare bedroom you will probably have to clean the garage to find what you need to finish cleaning the desk.

Housework Murphy’s Laws

No matter what stage of completion one reaches, the cost of the remainder of the project remains constant.

Murphy’s Laws

There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.

Murphy’s Laws People

Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.

Murphy’s Laws Time

When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, an unethical lawyer will immediately appear.

Lawyers Murphy’s Laws

Information travels more surely to those with a lesser need to know.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws People

The number of adjectives and verbs that are added to the description of a menu item is in inverse proportion to the quality of the dish.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Being in politics is like being a football coach: you have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it’s important.

Education Government Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Politics Sports

There's nothing to scratch but the surface.

Murphy’s Laws

Keep up with the Grabowskis… you'll never make enough to keep up with the Joneses.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Grass growing from sidewalk cracks never turns brown.

Murphy’s Laws

Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.

Murphy’s Laws

No man is a hero to his valet.

Murphy’s Laws

The most powerful force in the world is that of a disc straining to land under a car, just beyond reach.

Murphy’s Laws