Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 27)

If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you may have misjudged the situation.

There are more horses’ asses in this world than there are horses.

The remaining distance to your chosen campsite remains constant as twilight approaches.

In every organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on… and this person must be fired.

1. If it should exist, it doesn't.
2. If it does exist, it's out of date.
3. Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.

The quantity which must be multiplied by, divided by, added to or subtracted from the answer you get to give the answer you should have got.

If you run into an old girlfriend – no matter how innocently – your wife will know about it before you get home.

The ideal resume will turn up one day after the position is filled.

The wages of sin are unreported.

To make an enemy, do someone a favor.

Everything happens at the same time with nothing in between.

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

(1938 – ) U.S. governor (California) & politician

A block grant is a solid mass of money surrounded on all sides by governors.

Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Anything that happens enough times to irritate you will happen at least once more.

If you have something to do and you put it off for long enough, the chances are someone else will do it for you.

If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.

A consultant may be defined as an unemployed practitioner.

The amount of wind will vary inversely with the number and experience of the people you take on board.

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.