Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 78)

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When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?"

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Truck deliveries that normally take one day will take five when you are waiting for the truck.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Any change looks terrible at first.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws Work

Name on building: upper class. Name on desk: middle class. Name on shirt: working class

Murphy’s Laws

Kids used to ask you where they came from – now they tell you where to go.

Children Murphy’s Laws

Nothing is ever so bad that it can't get worse.

Murphy’s Laws

1. No matter what they're telling you, they're not telling you the whole truth. 2. No matter what they're talking about, they're talking about money.

Characteristics Honesty Lies Money Murphy’s Laws Truth

When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.

Murphy’s Laws

Recoilless rifles – aren’t.

Arms Military Murphy’s Laws

If you file it, you'll know where it is but never need it. If you don't file it, you'll need it but never know where it is.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws

A condominium is just an apartment with a down payment.

Murphy’s Laws Things

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician
Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations Things

Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

The grass is brown on both sides of the fence.

Death Murphy’s Laws

The lead in a pencil will break in direct proportion to the importance of the notes being taken.

Murphy’s Laws

If on an actuarial basis there is a 50-50 chance that something will go wrong, it will actually go wrong nine times out of ten.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Always assume that your assumption is invalid.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Thinking

Any object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a larger object.

Murphy’s Laws Things

He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from the next freeway exit.

Driving Murphy’s Laws Travel