Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 62)

Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will reject the proposal.

No matter what goes wrong, there is always somebody who knew it would.

Expressways aren’t.

At any particular time, there are more horse's asses in the world than horses.

Smart bombs have bad days too.

1. Any great truth can – and eventually will – be expressed as a cliche.

2. Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

1. If you're wondering if you took the meat out to thaw, you didn't. 2. If you're wondering if you left the coffee pot plugged in, you did.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Just sometimes, every damn thing goes right.

All rush jobs are due the same day.

The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons!

If anything can't go wrong… it will.

Only adults have difficulty with child-proof bottles.

Seven-eighths of everything can't be seen.

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

The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional to… to…

Liars get caught by the tale.

If you did manage to get any good shots, they will be ruined when someone inadvertently opens the darkroom door and all of the dark leaks out.

Whenever two fishing lines are contiguous, they will become continuous.

In a bureaucracy, accomplishment is inversely proportional to the volume of paper used.