Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 62)

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If you pick up a chunk of broken concrete and try to pitch it into an adjacent lot, it will hit a tree limb and come down right on the driver’s side of your car windshield.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

Golf Murphy’s Laws Problems Sports

Give him an inch and he'll screw you.

Conflict Murphy’s Laws

The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its importance.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

As soon as you’re doing what you wanted to be doing, you want to be doing something else.

Life Murphy’s Laws

It always takes longer to get there than to get back.

Murphy’s Laws Time Travel

Things hate people.

Murphy’s Laws People Things

Change is the status quo.

Murphy’s Laws

The chances of anybody doing anything are inversely proportional to the number of other people who are in a position to do it instead.

Murphy’s Laws

Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you.

Characteristics Military Murphy’s Laws

About sentence fragments.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.

Murphy’s Laws

Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don’t let anyone know it.

Murphy’s Laws

What this world needs is a damned good plague.

Murphy’s Laws World

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

(1887 – 1943) theater critic & commentator
Murphy’s Laws

When dangling, don't use participles.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Some of it, plus the rest of it, is all of it.

Murphy’s Laws

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

If an experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment.

Murphy’s Laws Things