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It is impossible to distinguish, from a distance, whether the bureaucrats associated with your project are simply sitting on their hands, or frantically trying to cover their asses.

Brownian Motion Rule of Bureaucracies

Murphy’s Laws Situations Bureaucrats

In a bureaucratic hierarchy, the higher up the organization the less people appreciate Murphy's Law.

Rogers's Observation

Murphy’s Laws Bureaucracy Hierarchy

Always leave room to add an explanation if it doesn't work out.

Rule of the Way Out

Communication Murphy’s Laws Problems Explanations

Remember on your walk through life, the grass made greener on the other side of the fence is caused by “pasture pies.”

Grandma Soderquist's First Observation

Murphy’s Laws

A theory is better than an explanation.

Woodward's Law

Murphy’s Laws Explanations H.P. Woodward Theories

Look around the table; if you don’t see a sucker, get up, because you’re the sucker.

Slim's Rule

Activities Games Murphy’s Laws Gambling Suckers

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

Lovka's Law of Driving

Autos Driving Murphy’s Laws Left Turns Traffic

You know you're getting old when everything dries up or leaks.

Witcoff's Truism

Age Murphy’s Laws Old

We are born naked, wet, and hungry; then things get worse.

Anonymous

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws Birth

Never try to guess your wife's size. Just buy her anything marked ‘petite’ and hold on to the receipt.

Murphy's Fifth Law for Husbands

Appearance Body Clothing Murphy’s Laws Shopping Gifts Size

1 + 1 hardly ever equals 2.

Murphy’s Formulation

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The more food you prepare, the less your guests eat.

The Party Law

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Guests Parties

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Montagu's Maxim

Age Death Murphy’s Laws Time Young

No matter how many alterations, cheap pants never fit.

Taylor's Law of Tailoring

Appearance Clothing Murphy’s Laws (also Firth’s Law of Tailoring)

A high paying rush job comes in only after you've committed to a low paying rush job.

First Law for Freelance Artists

Money Murphy’s Laws Work Rush jobs

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

Peter's Placebo

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Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 11)

Justice always prevails… three times out of seven.

Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.

Asking dumb questions is easier than correcting dumb mistakes.

When both sides are convinced they are about to lose, they're both right.

It is impossible to distinguish, from a distance, whether the bureaucrats associated with your project are simply sitting on their hands, or frantically trying to cover their asses.

In a bureaucratic hierarchy, the higher up the organization the less people appreciate Murphy's Law.

Always leave room to add an explanation if it doesn't work out.

Remember on your walk through life, the grass made greener on the other side of the fence is caused by “pasture pies.”

A theory is better than an explanation.

Look around the table; if you don’t see a sucker, get up, because you’re the sucker.

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

You know you're getting old when everything dries up or leaks.

We are born naked, wet, and hungry; then things get worse.

Never try to guess your wife's size. Just buy her anything marked ‘petite’ and hold on to the receipt.

1 + 1 hardly ever equals 2.

The more food you prepare, the less your guests eat.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

No matter how many alterations, cheap pants never fit.

A high paying rush job comes in only after you've committed to a low paying rush job.

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.