Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 7)

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If the assumptions are wrong, the conclusions aren't likely to be very good.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

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

On the way to the corner, any dropped tool will first strike your toes.

Murphy’s Laws

The army with the smartest dress uniform will lose.

Conflict Military Murphy’s Laws

Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Communication Education Murphy’s Laws

People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

You can make a killing in the theatre, but not a living.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Murphy’s Laws

The real objective of a committee is not to reach a decision, but to avoid it.

Murphy’s Laws

The first 90 percent of the task takes 90 percent of the time. The last 10 percent takes the other 90 percent.

Murphy’s Laws Time

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Everything takes more time and money.

Life Money Murphy’s Laws Time

Nothing is easy.

Life Murphy’s Laws Problems

The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank. The really big chunks always rise to the top.

Murphy’s Laws

If the law-makers make a compromise, the place where it will be felt most is the taxpayer’s pocket.

Money Murphy’s Laws Politicians

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

(1888 – 1965) British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet
Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

The successful pundit is provided more opportunities to say things than he has things worth saying.

Murphy’s Laws

The effectiveness of a politician varies in inverse proportion to his commitment to principle.

Government Murphy’s Laws Politicians

Anything labeled "NEW" and/or "IMPROVED" isn't.

Murphy’s Laws Shopping Things

Justice always prevails… three times out of seven.

Murphy’s Laws

Nobody really cares or understands what anyone else is doing.

Murphy’s Laws People