Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 33)

The best parts of anything are always impossible to remove from the worst parts.

The number of women a man find attractive is truly proportionate to his age.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it’s the light of the oncoming train.

If the people of a democracy are allowed to do so, they will vote away the freedoms which are essential to that democracy.

A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

In a bureaucracy, accomplishment is inversely proportional to the volume of paper used.

Changing things is central to leadership, and changing them before anyone else is creativeness.

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

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

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

Any child who chatters nonstop at home will adamantly refuse to utter a word when requested to demonstrate for an audience.

Its important to use apostrophe's right.

Only at the start/re-start of a DIY job do you realise the need to return to your toolbox/shed to retrieve another tool.

A condominium is just an apartment with a down payment.

An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.

The local density of mosquitos is inversely proportional to your remaining repellent.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the letter.


Join clauses good like a conjunction should.

Nothing is ever so bad that it can't get worse.

Anything in parentheses can be ignored.