Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 9)

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Never drink anything that’s still on fire.

Alcohol Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Experiments should be reproducible… they should all fail in the same way.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

There is no traffic until you need to make a left turn.

Autos Driving Murphy’s Laws

General solutions to specific problems become specific problems requiring general solutions.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

People don't change; they only become more so.

Murphy’s Laws People

Facts without theory are trivia. Theory without facts is bullshit.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

The other line moves faster.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Shopping

Good parking places are always on the other side of the street.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

Appearance Body Murphy’s Laws Places Women World

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

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Food/Drink Life Murphy’s Laws

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

‘Push’ is the force exerted upon the door marked PULL.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

If it can be borrowed and it can be broken, you will borrow it and you will break it.

Murphy’s Laws

There is more law in the end of a policeman’s nightstick than in a decision of the Supreme Court.

Government Law Murphy’s Laws

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

Conflict Government Military Murphy’s Laws War

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.

Computers Murphy’s Laws Things

The length of any meeting is inversely proportional to the length of the agenda for that meeting.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Things will get worse before they get better; Who said things would get better?

Murphy’s Laws

If you're already in a hole, there's no use to continue digging.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.

Characteristics Communication Honesty Murphy’s Laws Truth