Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 73)

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If everybody wants it, nobody gets it.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

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

Books Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Washington is a much better place if you are asking questions rather than answering them.

Murphy’s Laws Places

The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed.

Murphy’s Laws Work

The most powerful force in the world is that of a disc straining to land under a car, just beyond reach.

Murphy’s Laws

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

If it is worth fighting for, it is worth fighting dirty for.

Conflict Fights Murphy’s Laws

If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The program you've been looking forward to all week will be preempted.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws Television

1. The more general the title of a course, the less you will learn from it. 2. The more specific a title is, the less you will be able to apply it.

Education Murphy’s Laws School

The less you know about an opportunity, the more attractive it is.

Murphy’s Laws

Claim victory and retreat.

Conflict Murphy’s Laws War

1. In dealing with their “own” problems, faculty members are the most extreme conservatives 2. In dealing with “other” people's problems, they are the world's most extreme liberals.

Beliefs Government Murphy’s Laws Situations

Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.

Murphy’s Laws

The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it.

Government Murphy’s Laws Time

The intensity of movie publicity is in inverse ratio to the quality of the movie.

Entertainment Film Murphy’s Laws

No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.

Money Murphy’s Laws Shopping Time

Virtue is just vice at rest.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

Highways in the worst need of repair naturally have low traffic counts, which results in low priority for repair work.

Autos Murphy’s Laws

The less you know about an opportunity, the more attractive it is.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

If you want it done quickly, it won't be done correctly.

Murphy’s Laws Work