Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 43)

If you have enough meetings over a long enough period of time, the meetings become more important than the problem the meetings were intended to solve.

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

Whenever someone you know, or someone you do business with, moves to a new location, it’s always farther away.

If people listened to themselves more often, they'd talk less.

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish yourself as an expert.

If a string has one end, it has another.

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up.

When you want to unlock a door but only have one hand free, the keys will be in the opposite pocket.

The more complicated and grandiose the plan, the greater the chance of a screw-up.

People specialize in their area of greatest weakness.

If it’s clean, it isn’t laundry.

All life is 6 to 5 against.

If you have something to do and you put it off for long enough, the chances are someone else will do it for you.

The amount of flak received on any subject is inversely proportional to the subject’s true value.

The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

No matter how many rooms there are in the motel, the fellow who starts up his car at five o’clock in the morning is always parked under your window.

When traveling with children… at least one child of any number of children will request a rest room stop exactly halfway between any two given rest areas.

 If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

To err is human, so do not use up the eraser before the pencil.

There are four kinds of people: those who sit quietly and do nothing, those who talk about sitting quietly and doing nothing, those who do things, and those who talk about doing things.

It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.