Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 29)

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Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

You can't win; You can't break even; You can't quit.

Murphy’s Laws

No shoelace ever broke being untied.

Murphy’s Laws Things

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

Murphy’s Laws

1. Never draw what you can copy.
2. Never copy what you can trace.
3. Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician
Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations Things

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intention of doing you good, you should run for your life.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

The most valuable quotation will be the one for which you cannot determine the source.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

If there are only two shows worth watching, they will be on at the same time.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws Television

1. Important mail arrives late. 2. Junk mail arrives the day it was sent.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Talent in staff work or sales will recurrently be interpreted as managerial ability.

Murphy’s Laws

Them what gets – has.

Murphy’s Laws

Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Sleep

Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws Opinion

If you can’t explain what you’re doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.

Communication Intelligence Language Murphy’s Laws

You can’t lose an old golf ball.

Golf Murphy’s Laws Sports

The purpose of the communication is to advance the communicator.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

You can never do merely one thing.

Murphy’s Laws

If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many it’s research.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

The grass is brown on both sides of the fence.

Death Murphy’s Laws

If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems