Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 80)

If anything can't go wrong… it will.

When working with a dictionary of more than one volume, the next reference will be in the other volume.

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

Caveats are always* forgotten.
*Caveat: except in rare instances

When opportunity knocks, you’ve got headphones on.

An object will fall so as to do the most damage.

No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.

The only things that start on time are those that you're late for.

The fact that you do not know the answer does not meant that someone else does.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

1. Important mail arrives late. 2. Junk mail arrives the day it was sent.

In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.

Never make a decision that you can get someone else to make.

1. Anyone else who can be blamed should be blamed. 2. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong faster with computers. 3. Whenever a computer can be blamed, it should be blamed.

Seven-eighths of everything can't be seen.

All life is 6 to 5 against.

If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap.

To err is human, so do not use up the eraser before the pencil.

Don’t ever be the first, don’t ever be the last and don’t ever volunteer to do anything.

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much… then again, don’t drink too little.