Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 83)

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

1. If you can only do one thing well there is no market for it.

2. You can never do just one thing.

The only time you come up with a great solution is after somebody else has solved the problem.

If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.

There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.

The love letter you finally got the courage to send will be delayed in the post long enough for you to make a fool of yourself in person.

Disorder expands proportionately to the tolerance for it.

A clever remark is one you don’t make at the appropriate moment, but compose immediately after.

No matter how early you arrive, someone else is in line first.

There are no answers, only cross references.

Never worry about the bullet with your name on it; instead, worry about shrapnel addressed to 'occupant.’

By definition, when you are investigating the unknown, you do not know what you will find.

Never tell them what you wouldn't do.

If you allow someone to get in front of you, you both will have the same destination, and the other car will get the last parking space.

Whatever creates the greatest inconvenience for the largest number must happen.

The difference between a politician and a snail is that a snail leaves its slime behind.

Bad law is more likely to be supplemented than repealed.

The net weight of your boots is proportional to the cube of the number of hours you have been on the trail.

Things always fall at right angles.

Never let your studies interfere with your education.

All women marry beneath them.