Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 87)

If you’re feeling good, don’t worry… you’ll get over it.

To beat the bureaucracy, make your problem their problem.

Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.

Whatever carrousel you stand by, your baggage will come in on another one.

1. If it is green or it wiggles – it is Biology.
2. If it stinks – it is Chemistry.
3. If it doesn’t work – it is Physics.

Some of it, plus the rest of it, is all of it.

You can always hit what you don't aim at.

A falling body always rolls to the most inaccessible spot.

The gifts you buy your wife are never as appropriate as the gifts your neighbor buys his wife.

The most interesting paper will be scheduled simultaneously with the second most interesting paper.

There is nothing so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.

The progress of science varies inversely with the number of journals published.

No child throws up in the bathroom.

Time moves slower in a fast moving vehicle.

There is always one more son of a bitch than you counted on.

A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

20% of the customers account for 80% of the turnover, 20% of the components account for 80% of the cost, and so forth.

1. The more tangled your line is, the better the fishing is around you. 2. The time available to go fishing shrinks as the fishing season draws nearer. 3. The least experienced fisherman always catches the biggest fish.
Corollary: The more elaborate and costly the equipment, the greater chance of having to stop at the fish market on the way home.