Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 77)

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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Murphy’s Laws

When there are sufficient funds in the checking account, checks take two weeks to clear; when there are insufficient funds, checks clear overnight.

Money Murphy’s Laws Time

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Doctors Health Murphy’s Laws

When you wear new shoes for the first time, everyone will step on them.

Appearance Clothing Murphy’s Laws

The amount of junk is in direct proportion to the amount of space available.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Your wife's stored possessions will always be on top of your stored possessions.

Marriage Murphy’s Laws Things Wives

You will never find any more loose change than you have already lost.

Money Murphy’s Laws

The longer the title, the less important the job.

Murphy’s Laws Work

The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the letter.


Communication Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

A bird in the hand is dead.

Animals Death Murphy’s Laws

The first myth of management is that it exists.
The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
Corollary (Johnson) – Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere within your organization.

Murphy’s Laws Work

When a person says that, in the interest of saving time, he will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech Time

The ideal resume will turn up one day after the position is filled.

Murphy’s Laws Work

When a politician gets an idea, he usually gets it wrong.

Ideas Murphy’s Laws Politicians

Inanimate objects are scientifically classified into three major categories – those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist
Murphy’s Laws Things

If rats are experimented upon, they will develop cancer.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws

The more cordial the buyer’s secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.

Murphy’s Laws

Under current practices, both expenditures and revenues rise to meet each other, no matter which one may be in excess.

Money Murphy’s Laws

1. Trial balances don't.
2. Working capital doesn't.
3. Liquidity tends to run out.
4. Return on investments won't.

Money Murphy’s Laws

The first requisite of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Things