Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 4)

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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

1. A rolling stone gathers momentum.
2. Progress is nondirectional.

Murphy’s Laws

Trouble strikes in series of threes, but when working around the house the next job after a series of three is not the fourth job – it's the start of a brand new series of three.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Work

Hot glass looks the same as cold glass.

Murphy’s Laws

If it can be borrowed and it can be broken, you will borrow it and you will break it.

Murphy’s Laws

No experiment is reproducible.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

Halitosis is better than no breath at all.

Murphy’s Laws

When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience will get the money and the person with the money will get some experience.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Ninety percent of “everything” is crud.

Murphy’s Laws Situations Things

The “Consumer Report” on the item will come out a week after you’ve made your purchase.
Corollaries: 1. The one you bought will be rated “unacceptable.”. 2. The one you almost bought will be rated “best buy.”

Murphy’s Laws Shopping

Everything goes wrong all at once.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

Cleanliness is next to impossible.

Murphy’s Laws

Any program will expand to fill available memory.

Computers Murphy’s Laws Things

The only imperfect thing in nature is the human race.

Murphy’s Laws People

When two people meet to decide how to spend a third person's money, fraud will result.

Money Murphy’s Laws People

It is usually impractical to worry beforehand about interferences; if you have none, someone will make one for you.

Murphy’s Laws

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

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

Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Birthday parties always end in tears.

Children Murphy’s Laws Situations

Virtue is its own punishment.

Murphy’s Laws

A hand in the bush is worth two anywhere else.

Murphy’s Laws