Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 32)

If you take your boots off, you'll never get them back on again.

The more boring and out-of-date the magazines in the waiting room, the longer you will have to wait for your scheduled appointment.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

The number of stones in your boot is directly proportional to the number of hours you have been on the trail.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

When in doubt, take the trick.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Democracy is that form of government where everybody gets what the majority deserves.

Nothing is easy.

Seven-eighths of everything can’t be seen.

Any experiment is reproducible until another laboratory tries to repeat it.

The lights are most likely to come back on at the precise moment you find the flashlight.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

Everything depends.

If you pick up a chunk of broken concrete and try to pitch it into an adjacent lot, it will hit a tree limb and come down right on the driver’s side of your car windshield.

Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD.

Change is the status quo.

Authority tends to assign jobs to those least able to do them.

The object or bit of information most needed will be least available.

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

Any facts which, when included in the argument, give the desired result, are fair facts for the argument.