Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 81)

1. Giving away baby clothes and furniture is a major cause of pregnancy. 2. Always be backlit. 3. Sit down whenever possible.

Any bus that can be the wrong bus will be the wrong bus. All others are out of service or full.

If you do a job twice, it’s yours.

Exceptions prove the rule, and destroy the battle plan.

No politician talks taxes during an election year.

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

(1888 – 1965) British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

The most expensive component is the one that breaks.

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

Everything costs more and takes longer.

No two identical parts are alike.

The comfort of turning 49 is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

In matters of dispute, the bank's balance is always smaller than yours.

You know you have it when you can’t think of anything that’s your own fault.

1. A rolling stone gathers momentum.
2. Progress is nondirectional.

The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist

Any product cut to length will be too short.

Whatever you want, you can’t have, what you can have, you don’t want.

No matter how often the lie is shown to be false, there will still remain a percentage of people who believe it true.

Incoming fire has the right-of-way.