Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 28)

Whatever arrangement you make for the division of household duties, your husband's job will be easier.

If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.

1. Other people’s tools work only in other people’s yards. 2. Fancy gizmos don’t work. 3. If nobody uses it, there’s a reason. 4. You get the most of what you need the least.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

No matter how many rooms there are in the motel, the fellow who starts up his car at five o’clock in the morning is always parked under your window.

If the converse of a statement is absurd, the original statement is an insult to the intelligence and should never have been said.

Whenever one word or letter can change the entire meaning of a sentence, the probability of an error being made will be in direct proportion to the embarrassment it will cause.

It's always the wrong time of the month.

A little ambiguity never hurt anyone.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

If it looks easy, it's tough… if it looks tough, it's near impossible.

Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.

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

No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.

You can't fall off the floor.

There are 32 points to the compass, meaning that there are 32 directions in which a spoon can squirt grapefruit; yet, the juice almost invariably flies straight into the human eye.

The person who buys the most raffle tickets has the least chance of winning.

The number of person's relatives is directly proportional to his fame.

The bigger the discovery, the more likely it was made while testing for something else.

Washington is a much better place if you are asking questions rather than answering them.

The minute you sign a client is the minute you start to lose him.