Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 70)

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The hidden flaw never remains hidden.

Murphy’s Laws

The only way to avoid hitting a tree is to aim at it.

Golf Murphy’s Laws Sports

If it would be cheaper to buy a new unit, the company will insist upon repairing the old one.
Corollary: If it would be cheaper to repair the old one, the company will insist on the latest model.

Murphy’s Laws

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages will be known far and wide as a smart-ass.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

A retreating enemy is probably just falling back and regrouping.

Military Murphy’s Laws

2 is not equal to 3 – not even for very large values of 2.

Murphy’s Laws

Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.


Memory Murphy’s Laws People Problems Situations

If you need four screws for the job, the first three are easy to find.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man tired in mid afternoon.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Sleep

Usefulness is inversely proportional to reputation for being useful.

Murphy’s Laws

It is impossible to distinguish, from a distance, whether the bureaucrats associated with your project are simply sitting on their hands, or frantically trying to cover their asses.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.

Government Murphy’s Laws Problems

If a dish is dropped while removing it from the cupboard, it will hit the sink, breaking the dish and chipping or denting the sink in the process.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Age Murphy’s Laws

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Success

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

Money Murphy’s Laws

All life is 6 to 5 against.

Life Murphy’s Laws

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing Time

A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.

Language Murphy’s Laws

How to locate the slow-moving traffic lane or check-out land: Get in it.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Situations Things

What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts – not the facts themselves.

Facts Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather