Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 28)

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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

Murphy’s Laws Things

The one piece that holds the whole thing together will be missing.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

Twits beget twits.

Family Murphy’s Laws

In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.

America Murphy’s Laws Shopping

The army with the smartest dress uniform will lose.

Conflict Military Murphy’s Laws

The higher up the organization, the fewer people appreciate Murphy's Law.

Murphy’s Laws

Science is Truth. Don't be misled by fact.

Beliefs Facts Honesty Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Truth

When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, an unethical lawyer will immediately appear.

Lawyers Murphy’s Laws

Don’t force it; get a larger hammer.

Murphy’s Laws Things

As an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) grows longer, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler or Nazism.

Murphy’s Laws

The less work an organization produces, the more frequently it reorganizes.

Murphy’s Laws

If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws

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

Activities Murphy’s Laws

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Stupidity

If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges.

Murphy’s Laws People Problems Work

Circumstances can force a generalized incompetent to become competent, at least in a specialized field.

Murphy’s Laws

If you ask your husband to pick up five items at the store and then you add one more as an afterthought, he will forget two of the first five.

Husbands Murphy’s Laws Shopping Wives

If you can’t get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Murphy’s Laws

A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

If you miss one issue of any magazine, it will be the issue that contains the article, story or installment you were most anxious to read.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

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