Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 13)

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The enemy invariably attacks on one of two occasions:
1. When you’re ready for them. 2. When you’re not ready for them.

Military Murphy’s Laws

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

Murphy’s Laws

A hand in the bush is worth two anywhere else.

Murphy’s Laws

The amount of junk is in direct proportion to the amount of space available.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Success can be insured only by devising a defense against failure of the contingency plan.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Success

Never conduct negotiations before 10:00 a.m. or after 4:00 p.m. Before 10:00 you appear too anxious, and after 4:00 they think you're desperate.

Murphy’s Laws

Never characterize the importance of a statement in advance.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

Government intervention in the free market always leads to a lower national standard of living.

Government Murphy’s Laws

Neutral countries – aren’t.

Government Military Murphy’s Laws Places

Any new activity will cause more trouble than you can possibly imagine.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

A road map always tells you everything except how to refold it.

Murphy’s Laws

1. The last gas station for 50 miles will be closed when you get there. 2. At the moment of any departure, the level of gas in your tank depends entirely on how late you are. 3. You only run out of gas after your wife tells you to stop for gas before you run out.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things Travel

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

(1938 – ) U.S. governor (California) & politician
Murphy’s Laws Work

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Murphy’s Laws

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Life Murphy’s Laws Time

You no sooner get your head above water than someone pulls your flippers off.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

The more qualified candidates who are available, the more likely the compromise will be on the candidate whose main qualification is a non-threatening incompetence.

Elections/Voting Government Murphy’s Laws

If several things that could have gone wrong have not gone wrong, it would have been ultimately beneficial for them to have gone wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

It (housework) expands to fill the time available plus half an hour: so obviously it is never finished.

Housework Murphy’s Laws

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Murphy’s Laws People Situations

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Murphy’s Laws