Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 5)

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve; run with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened; keep the company of bums and you will become a bum; hang around with rich people and you will end by picking up the check and dying broke.

The only way a reporter should look at a politician is down.

Incoming fire has the right of way.

1. The more tangled your line is, the better the fishing is around you. 2. The time available to go fishing shrinks as the fishing season draws nearer. 3. The least experienced fisherman always catches the biggest fish.
Corollary: The more elaborate and costly the equipment, the greater chance of having to stop at the fish market on the way home.

Needs are a function of what other people have.

If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.

Field experience is something you never get until just after you need it.

The combat worth of a unit is inversely proportional to the smartness of its outfit and appearance.

Murphy's Law cannot be proven, yet is correct, as when you try to prove Murphy's Law, you will see that the proof is incorrect. This is obviously due to Murphy's Law, therefore Murphy's Law is correct and proven.

As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse.

In a family recipe that you discovered in an old book, the most vital measurement will be illegible.

The perceived usefulness of an article is inversely proportional to its actual usefulness once bought and paid for.

A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.

A falling body always rolls to the most inaccessible spot.

1. Fat expands to fill any apparel worn.
2. A fat person walks in the middle of the hall.

Those who expect the biggest tips provide the worst service.

The comfort of turning 49 is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

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

In any group of eagles, you will find some turkeys.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The most interesting paper will be scheduled simultaneously with the second most interesting paper.