Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 78)

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All committee reports conclude that “it is not prudent to change the policy (or procedure, or organization, or whatever) at this time.”

Murphy’s Laws People

Everything is cold except what should be.

Cold Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

A good place to start from is where you are.

Murphy’s Laws

1 + 1 hardly ever equals 2.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The “Consumer Report” on the item will come out a week after you’ve made your purchase.
Corollaries: 1. The one you bought will be rated “unacceptable.”. 2. The one you almost bought will be rated “best buy.”

Murphy’s Laws Shopping

For every vision there is an equal and opposite revision.

Murphy’s Laws

An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again.

Murphy’s Laws People

Your pocket radio won't pick up the station you want to hear most.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws

The snapshots you take of your husband are always more flattering than the ones he takes of you.

Husbands Murphy’s Laws Self Things Wives

All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.

Murphy’s Laws

If you have something to do and you put it off for long enough, the chances are someone else will do it for you.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Internal consistency is valued more highly than efficiency.

Murphy’s Laws

If you can’t get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Murphy’s Laws

You can never be sure how many beers you had last night.

Alcohol Beer Murphy’s Laws

Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a bigger can.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

It requires less energy to take an object out of its proper place than to put it back.

Murphy’s Laws

The one piece that holds the whole thing together will be missing.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

We may lay down a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people.

(1672 – 1719) English essasyist, poet & politician
Doctors Health Murphy’s Laws People

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Success