Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 67)

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The first time you go out after your wife’s birthday, you will see the gift you gave her marked down fifty percent.
Corollary: If she’s with you, she’ll assume you chose it because it was cheap.

Husbands Money Murphy’s Laws Shopping Wives

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

Murphy’s Laws

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little while longer.

Military Murphy’s Laws

You never want the one you can afford.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Them what gets – has.

Murphy’s Laws

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Needs are a function of what other people have.

Murphy’s Laws

No books are lost by loaning except those you particularly wanted to keep.

Books Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

The object or bit of information most needed will be least available.

Murphy’s Laws

Computing power increases as the square of the cost; if you want to do it twice as cheaply, you have to do it four times slower.

Computers Money Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Situations Things

A man should be greater than some of his parts.

Murphy’s Laws People

When putting cheese in a mousetrap, always leave room for the mouse.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

A taxpayer is someone who does not have to take a civil service exam in order to work for the government.

Government Murphy’s Laws Taxes

The most delicate component will be dropped.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Things

The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.

Murphy’s Laws

Everything breaks down.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

People who park on the cast side of a football stadium will invariably have seats on the west side.

Murphy’s Laws

If a situation requires undivided attention, it will occur simultaneously with a compelling distraction.


Murphy’s Laws Situations

The first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in front of your eyes.

Autos Driving Murphy’s Laws Things

Love letters, business contracts and money due you always arrive three weeks late, whereas junk mail arrives the day it was sent.

Murphy’s Laws Time

If it can break, it will, but only after the warranty expires.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Things