Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 85)

If you mess with something long enough, it'll break.

Exceptions prove the rule, and destroy the battle plan.

The book or periodical most vital to the completion of your term paper will be missing from the library.

Corollary: If it is available, the most important page will be torn out.

The usefulness of any meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, an unethical lawyer will immediately appear.

Chaos always wins, because it’s better organized.

Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness.

If there are two possible ways to spell a person’s name, you will pick the wrong spelling.

There is no substitute for good manners… except, perhaps, fast reflexes.

In an otherwise empty locker room, any two individuals will have adjoining lockers.

A writer mustn’t shift your point of view.

The only time to be positive is when you are positive you are wrong.

What is good politics is bad economics; what is bad politics is good economics; what is good economics is bad politics; what is bad economics is good politics.

When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly.

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

Any change looks terrible at first.

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

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

Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong denomination.

Attempt to be seen with important people.