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Murphy’s Laws
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Those who expect the biggest tips provide the worst service.
Tipper's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Service
Tipping
Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster.
Law of Motivation
Murphy’s Laws
Creativity
Plagiarism
When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly.
Douglas's Law of Practical Aeronautics
Murphy’s Laws
Paperwork
When in trouble, obfuscate.
Halgren’s Solution
Murphy’s Laws
Confusion
Trouble
If things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
Chisholm's Law of Human Interaction
Murphy’s Laws
Improvement
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.
Allison's Precept
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Betting
Expertise
In a social situation, the most difficult thing to do is usually the right thing to do.
Meyers’s Law
Murphy’s Laws
Difficulties
Good
Social situations
There are no "free lunches," but sometimes it costs more to collect money than to give away food.
Mark Miller's Exception to Crane's Law
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Free lunches
If your condition seems to be getting better, it's probably your doctor getting sick.
Fifth Principle for Patients
Doctors
Health
Murphy’s Laws
Illness
Things are never as bad as they turn out to be.
White’s Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Situations
Richard N. White
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.
Aunt Emmie’s First Law
Murphy’s Laws
Cigarette
From Owen Elliott’s Aunt Emmie
You can always find what you're not looking for.
Maryann's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Tracers work BOTH ways.
A Murphy's Military Law
Arms
Military
Murphy’s Laws
Tracers
Negative expectations yield negative results; positive expectations yield negative results.
Non-Reciprocal Law of Expectations
Murphy’s Laws
Expectations
The wrong quarterback is the one that’s in there.
Murray’s Rule of Football
Football
Murphy’s Laws
Sports
Quarterbacks
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.
Forthoffer's Cynical Summary of Barzun's Laws
Education
Murphy’s Laws
Success
Teaching
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.
Short's Quotations
Communication
Facts
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
Cliches
The squeaky wheel gets replaced.
Lafayette's Reprisal
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Situations
Squeaky wheel
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.
Snafu Equation V
Murphy’s Laws
Obvious
Solutions
A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
Diner's Dilemma
Clothing
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
Soup
Ties
At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.
Breda’s Rule
Murphy’s Laws
People
Aisles
Audiences
Events
Seats
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