Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 14)

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The program you've been looking forward to all week will be preempted.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws Television

If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.

Facts Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

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

Murphy’s Laws

When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?"

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

(1887 – 1943) theater critic & commentator
Murphy’s Laws

Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

Whatever you want, you can’t have, what you can have, you don’t want.

Murphy’s Laws

Virtue is its own punishment.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

(1888 – 1965) British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet
Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

The less you say, the less you have to take back.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush.

Military Murphy’s Laws

Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

Computers Murphy’s Laws Things

The cussedness of inanimate objects is beyond understanding.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well-being.

Murphy’s Laws

The amount of intelligence on Earth is infinite; the population increases exponentially.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't.

Arms Government Military Murphy’s Laws

This will hurt me more than it hurts you.

Murphy’s Laws

1. An object in motion will be heading in the wrong direction.
2. An object at rest will be in the wrong place.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Things

There is nothing so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.

Murphy’s Laws

Don't let your superiors know you're better than they are.

Murphy’s Laws

Whatever carrousel you stand by, your baggage will come in on another one.

Murphy’s Laws Travel