Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 43)

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For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

Beware of a day in which you don't have something to bitch about.

Murphy’s Laws

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Murphy’s Laws

A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

Murphy’s Laws

When all else fails, follow instructions.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The more boring and out-of-date the magazines in the waiting room, the longer you will have to wait for your scheduled appointment.

Health Murphy’s Laws

The effectiveness of a politician varies in inverse proportion to his commitment to principle.

Government Murphy’s Laws Politicians

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.

Characteristics Communication Honesty Murphy’s Laws Truth

If something is confidential, it will be left in the copier machine.

Murphy’s Laws

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Murphy’s Laws

The workbench is always untidier than last time. General Law: The chaos in the universe always increases.

Murphy’s Laws

When a person says that, in the interest of saving time, he will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech Time

An unexpectedly easy-to-handle sequence of events will be immediately followed by an equally long sequence of trouble.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Don’t draw fire, it irritates the people around you.

Military Murphy’s Laws

An intelligent person can make a dumber statement than an idiot. The idiot is limited to his imbecility.

Communication Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Speech

Laziness is the mother of nine inventions out of ten.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

The more a recruit knows about a given subject, the better chance he has of being assigned to something else.

Murphy’s Laws Work

People become progressively less competent for jobs they once were well equipped to handle.

Murphy’s Laws People Work

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much… then again, don’t drink too little.

Age Alcohol Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Old

If it would be cheaper to buy a new unit, the company will insist upon repairing the old one.
Corollary: If it would be cheaper to repair the old one, the company will insist on the latest model.

Murphy’s Laws