Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 48)

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges.

If it can be borrowed and it can be broken, you will borrow it and you will break it.

The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

A parade should have bands OR horses, not both.

When anything is used to its full potential, it will break.

The most difficult light bulb to replace burns out first and most frequently.

No plan survives first contact intact.

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

Everything put together sooner or later falls apart.

The number of adjectives and verbs that are added to the description of a menu item is in inverse proportion to the quality of the dish.

The lead in a pencil will break in direct proportion to the importance of the notes being taken.

Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.

People will believe anything if you whisper it.

Statistics are no substitute for common sense.

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

Any tool dropped while repairing an automobile will roll beneath the vehicle to its exact centre.

If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know.

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

If you can’t explain what you’re doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.