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To err is human; to purr, feline.
Robert Byrne
(1930 – ) American author and billiard player, teacher & commentator
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Any attempt to print Murphy's laws will jam the printer.
Anonymous
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A malfunctioning car will stop displaying symptoms of imminent breakdown when driven to within one-quarter mile of a garage.
Rawson’s Third Law
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(Hugh Rawson)
If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
Murphy's Fifth Law
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The only problem with having nothing to do is you can't stop and rest.
Franklin Jones
(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist
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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
Steve Martin
(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.
Proverb
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Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
Chinese proverb
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America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
John Barrymore
(1882 – 1942) American actor
America
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Some mistakes are too fun to make only once.
Beers Law of Reciprocating Systems Dynamics
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David L. Beers
If you drop something, it will never reach the ground.
Femo's Law of Automotive Engine Repairing
Accidents
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Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Edward A. Murphy Jr.
(1918 – 1990) American aerospace engineer
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
Lily Tomlin
(1939 – ) comedian, actress, writer & producer
Life
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You never run out of things that can go wrong.
NBC's Addendum to Murphy's Law
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She had an unequaled gift of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
Henry James
(1843 – 1916) American-born writer
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I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
Jimmy Carter
(1924 – ) 39th U.S. president & humanitarian
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An unexpectedly easy-to-handle sequence of events will be immediately followed by an equally long sequence of trouble.
Phelps's Law of Retributive Statistics
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After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an automobile accident, you begin to worry about history.
Tim Allen
(1953 – ) comedian & actor
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Office machines that function perfectly during normal business hours will break down when you return at night to use them for personal business.
Second Law of Office Murphology
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Office machines
When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time.
Johnson's First Law
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Any tool dropped while repairing an automobile will roll under the car to the vehicle's exact geographic center.
Johnson's First Law of Auto Repair
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