Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 38)

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The cream rises to the top. So does the scum.

Murphy’s Laws

You are always complimented on the item that took the least effort to prepare. Example: If you make roast turkey, you will be complimented on the baked potato.

Cooking Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

1. If you're wondering if you took the meat out to thaw, you didn't. 2. If you're wondering if you left the coffee pot plugged in, you did.

Cooking Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

The best investment opportunities are encountered when you are broke.

Money Murphy’s Laws

[When parachuting] it is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

Military Murphy’s Laws

Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there.

Murphy’s Laws

People would rather live with a problem they cannot solve than accept a solution they cannot understand.

Murphy’s Laws

More dirt comes out of a hole than you can get back into it.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

A good review is considered nepotism; a bad one professional jealousy.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Opinion

Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support desperately

Corollary: Radar tends to fail at night and in bad weather, and especially during both

Communication Murphy’s Laws

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

(1841–1919) French artist
Food/Drink Life Murphy’s Laws

The difficulty of finding any given trail marker is directly proportional to the importance of the consequences of failing to find it.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

There is no proposition, no matter how foolish, for which a dozen Nobel signatures cannot be collected.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

It works better if you plug it in.

Murphy’s Laws

If things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

Murphy’s Laws

The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

Murphy’s Laws

It's better to go when you have to go – than to go and find you've already gone.

Children Murphy’s Laws Travel

When there are sufficient funds in the checking account, checks take two weeks to clear; when there are insufficient funds, checks clear overnight.

Money Murphy’s Laws Time

Enough is never enough.

Children Murphy’s Laws Situations

Murphy’s Law never fails except when you try to demonstrate it.

Murphy’s Laws

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

(1966 – ) American magazine editor
Government Murphy’s Laws