Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 22)

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The one course you must take to graduate will not be offered during your last semester.

Education Murphy’s Laws

1. Anything done while honking your horn is legal.
2. You may park anywhere if you turn your four-way flashers on.
3. A red light means the next six cars may go through the intersection.

Autos Driving Murphy’s Laws New York City Places

Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws People Stupidity Wisdom

Anything in parentheses can be ignored.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

The speaker with the most monotonous voice speaks after the big meal.

Communication Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Speech

The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong denomination.

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws Success

The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communications between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

Push something hard enough and it will fall over.

Murphy’s Laws Things

1 + 1 hardly ever equals 2.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Successful research attracts the bigger grant which makes further research impossible.

Murphy’s Laws

If a headline ends in a question mark, the answer is “no.”

Headlines Murphy’s Laws

Law expands in proportion to the resources available for its enforcement.

Government Murphy’s Laws

The only way a reporter should look at a politician is down.

Government Murphy’s Laws Opinion Politicians

The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Incoming fire has the right-of-way.

Military Murphy’s Laws

There is only one thing worse than dreaming you are at a conference and waking to find that you are at a conference, and that is the conference where you can't fall asleep.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Sleep

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

Murphy’s Laws

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Bus schedules are arranged so your bus will arrive at the transfer point precisely one minute after the connecting bus has left.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Time Travel

There are no answers, only cross references.

Murphy’s Laws

For every proverb that so confidently asserts its little bit of wisdom, there is usually an equal and opposite proverb that contradicts it.

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws Proverbs