Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 45)

Those who expect the biggest tips provide the worst service.

Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster.

When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly.

When in trouble, obfuscate.

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

The best simple-minded test of expertise in a particular area is the ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

In a social situation, the most difficult thing to do is usually the right thing to do.

There are no "free lunches," but sometimes it costs more to collect money than to give away food.

If your condition seems to be getting better, it's probably your doctor getting sick.

Things are never as bad as they turn out to be.

A cigarette placed in an ashtray will go out if you stay in the room; if you leave the room, the cigarette will topple to the table, burn through, and drop to the floor, where it will smolder until it descends to ignite the drapes in the room below.

You can always find what you're not looking for.

Tracers work BOTH ways.

Negative expectations yield negative results; positive expectations yield negative results.

The wrong quarterback is the one that’s in there.

1. That which has not yet been taught directly can never be taught directly 2. If at first you don’t succeed, you will never succeed.

1. Any great truth can – and eventually will – be expressed as a cliche.

2. Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

The squeaky wheel gets replaced.

In any human endeavour, once you have exhausted all possibilities and fail, there will be one solution, simple and obvious, highly visible to everyone else.

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.