Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 18)

Being in politics is like being a football coach: you have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it’s important.

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

The number of stones in your boot is directly proportional to the number of hours you have been on the trail.

Just between you and I, case is important.

Anything you can do can get you killed – including doing nothing.

The only thing worse than a husband who never notices what you cook or what you wear is a husband who always notices what you cook and what you wear.

When things go wrong, don’t go with them.

Any system or program, however complicated, if looked at in exactly the right way, will become even more complicated.

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

Possessions increase to fill the space available for their storage.

You can make a killing in the theatre, but not a living.

If a piece of buttered toast falls, it will land face down.

There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.

No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.

One of the greatest unsolved riddles of restaurant eating is that the customer usually gets faster service when the restaurant is crowded than when it is half empty; it seems that the less the staff has to do, the slower they do it.

The higher the “higher-ups“ are who've come to see your demo, the lower your chances are of giving a successful one.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

When the camera focuses on a male athlete he will spit, pick or scratch.

If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want hits the paper.

In a social situation, the most difficult thing to do is usually the right thing to do.