Subject: Murphy’s Laws

Murphy’s Laws:

Various “laws,” axioms, principles and observations that usually convey a cynical view of life and an underlying sense of futility. Most do not prove, or even explain anything, but rather simply state a maxim – usually that things will go wrong.

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The larger the project or job, the less time there is to do it.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Odd objects attract fire… never lurk behind one.

Military Murphy’s Laws

Where zoning is not needed, it will work perfectly; where it is desperately needed, it always breaks down.

Murphy’s Laws

No shoelace ever broke being untied.

Murphy’s Laws Things

If you want it done quickly, it won't be done correctly.

Murphy’s Laws Work

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

Murphy’s Laws

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.

Driving Murphy’s Laws

People specialize in their area of greatest weakness.

Murphy’s Laws People

You can throw a burnt match out the window of your car and start a forest fire, but you can use two boxes of matches and a whole edition of the Sunday paper without being able to start a fire under the dry logs in your fireplace.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Beliefs Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Proverbs

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

Murphy’s Laws

Never drink anything that’s still on fire.

Alcohol Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong – but that’s the way to bet.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Sports

The most important item in an order will no longer be available.

Murphy’s Laws Shopping

Avoid any action with an unacceptable outcome.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

Appearance Murphy’s Laws Success

No matter which way you ride, it's uphill and against the wind.

Murphy’s Laws

In any human enterprise, work seeks the lowest hierarchical level.

Murphy’s Laws Work

The fact that you do not know the answer does not meant that someone else does.

Murphy’s Laws People

Make it sufficiently difficult for people to do something, and most people will stop doing it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

You can get away with anything as long as you tell someone about it.

Communication Murphy’s Laws