Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 79)

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The first time you go out after your wife’s birthday, you will see the gift you gave her marked down fifty percent.
Corollary: If she’s with you, she’ll assume you chose it because it was cheap.

Husbands Money Murphy’s Laws Shopping Wives

As soon as you’re doing what you wanted to be doing, you want to be doing something else.

Life Murphy’s Laws

Don’t force it; get a larger hammer.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Attempt to be seen with important people.

Murphy’s Laws

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Murphy’s Laws

Whenever you lose contact with the enemy, look behind you.

Military Murphy’s Laws

1. A dirty book is seldom dusty.
2. Any time you get a mouthful of hot soup, the next thing you do will be wrong.
3. How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Murphy’s Laws

Density of fire increases proportionally to the curiousness of the target.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Murphy’s Laws Time Work

Nothing is ever as simple as it first seems.

Murphy’s Laws

If the converse of a statement is absurd, the original statement is an insult to the intelligence and should never have been said.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Speech

If you live long enough, something will kill you.

Death Life Murphy’s Laws

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Truth

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Time

In any household, junk accumulates to fill the space available for its storage.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Anyone having supervisory responsibility for the completion of a task will invariably protest that more resources are needed.

Murphy’s Laws Work

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve; run with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened; keep the company of bums and you will become a bum; hang around with rich people and you will end by picking up the check and dying broke.

Characteristics Money Murphy’s Laws People

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

History Murphy’s Laws People Wisdom

Wear the right costume and the part plays itself.

Appearance Clothing Murphy’s Laws

The first example of superior principle is always inferior to the developed example of inferior principle.

Murphy’s Laws