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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All the good ones are taken.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Push something hard enough and it will fall over.

Murphy’s Laws Things

If people listened to themselves more often, they'd talk less.

Communication Murphy’s Laws People Speech

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.

Books Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing School

Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Age Murphy’s Laws

1. Never use one word when a dozen will suffice.
2. If it can be understood, it's not finished yet.
3. Never be the first to do anything.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws

You should have seen it when I got it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Things are never as bad as they turn out to be.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

Any tool dropped while repairing an automobile will roll beneath the vehicle to its exact centre.

Autos Murphy’s Laws

Chaos always wins, because it’s better organized.

Murphy’s Laws

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

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Folks playing leapfrog must complete all jumps.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communications between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

Men and nations will act rationally towards each other only after all other possibilities have been exhausted.

Characteristics Intelligence Murphy’s Laws People

The book you spent $20.95 for today will come out in paperback tomorrow.

Books Communication Money Murphy’s Laws

This lane ends in 500 feet.

Autos Driving Murphy’s Laws

If you ask your husband to pick up five items at the store and then you add one more as an afterthought, he will forget two of the first five.

Husbands Murphy’s Laws Shopping Wives

The only thing more dangerous than an amateur economist is a professional economist.

Murphy’s Laws Occupations Work

All five-second grenade fuses will burn down in three seconds.

Arms Military Murphy’s Laws

1. Giving away baby clothes and furniture is a major cause of pregnancy. 2. Always be backlit. 3. Sit down whenever possible.

Murphy’s Laws