Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 72)

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Wear the right costume and the part plays itself.

Appearance Clothing Murphy’s Laws

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Murphy’s Laws

Use it or lose it.

Murphy’s Laws

Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

(1919 – 2011) American news commentator & writer
Murphy’s Laws

The more ridiculous a belief system, the higher the probability of its success.

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws Success

No plan survives first contact intact.

Military Murphy’s Laws

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.

Communication Facts Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.

Government Money Murphy’s Laws

When you move something to a more logical place, you only can remember where it used to be and your decision to move it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The length of any meeting is inversely proportional to the length of the agenda for that meeting.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Some do; some don’t.

Murphy’s Laws People

If a taxpayer thinks he can cheat safely, he probably will.

Government Money Murphy’s Laws Taxes

Nothing is a temporary as that which is called permanent.

Corollary: Nothing is a permanent as that which is called temporary.

Murphy’s Laws

One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.

Murphy’s Laws People

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

Murphy’s Laws Things Time

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, any experimental organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Murphy’s Laws

Since no matter can be created or destroyed (excluding nuclear and cafeteria substances), as one attempts to remove unwanted material (i.e., trash) from one's living space, the remaining material mutates so as to occupy 30 to 50 percent more than its original volume.

Murphy’s Laws

There's no such thing as a large whiskey.

Alcohol Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

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

Books Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Smart bombs have bad days too.

Arms Military Murphy’s Laws

1. If it is green or it wiggles – it is Biology.
2. If it stinks – it is Chemistry.
3. If it doesn’t work – it is Physics.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Science/Weather