Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 18)

A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

Never create a problem for which you do not have the answer.

Corollary: Create problems for which only you have the answer.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

The fury engendered by the misspelling of a name in a (newspaper) column is in direct ratio to the obscurity of the mentionee.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

As soon as you’re doing what you wanted to be doing, you want to be doing something else.

Any decision is better than no decision.

The slowest checker is always at the quick-check-out lane.

No matter which direction you start it’s always against the wind coming back.

The more studying you did for the exam, the less sure you are as to which answer they want.

A mediocre player will sink to the level of his or her opposition.

If anything can go wrong it will go wrong when Mr. Murphy is out of town.

You never run out of things that can go wrong.

When responding to an urgent message requesting an immediate return call, you will get: (1) a wrong number, (2) a busy signal, or (3) no answer

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.

When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.

If everything seems to be coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane.

Exceptions always outnumber rules.

Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number.

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don’t let anyone know it.