Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 8)

Any tool dropped while repairing an automobile will roll under the car to the vehicle's exact geographic center.

The more carefully you plan a project, the more confusion there is when something goes wrong.

The information conveyed is less important than the impression.

Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.

Nothing ever comes out as planned.

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

No good deed goes unpunished.

After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.

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

When things just can't possibly get any worse, they will.

Whenever someone you know, or someone you do business with, moves to a new location, it’s always farther away.

He who laughs last probably didn’t get the joke.

Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.

Strive to look tremendously important.

The book you spent $20.95 for today will come out in paperback tomorrow.

Most accidents in well-designed systems involve two or more events of low probability occurring in the worst possible combination.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Life is a game, the object of which is to discover the object of the game.

1. Anything that begins well ends badly. 2. Anything that begins badly ends worse.