Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 46)

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages will be known far and wide as a smart-ass.

Space expands to house the people to perform the work that Congress creates.

When a politician gets an idea, he usually gets it wrong.

The number of stones in your boot is directly proportional to the number of hours you have been on the trail.

Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness.

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

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

The business contact that you have developed at great expense is the first person to be let go in any corporate reorganization.

Exciting plays occur only while you are watching the scoreboard or out buying a hot dog.

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.

No matter where you are, there you are.

Hockey is a game played by six good players and a home team.

The hardness of the butter is in direct proportion to the softness of the bread.

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

Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.

Tact is the art of telling someone to lose thirty pounds without ever using the word “fat.”

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it.

If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many it’s research.

Those who rise to executive positions lack the qualifications for anything lower.

Whenever you need to stop at a light to put on makeup, every light will be green.