Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 53)

The more food you prepare, the less your guests eat.

Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there.

Your wife's stored possessions will always be on top of your stored possessions.

No good deed goes unpunished.

The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal.

Anything worth doing is worth doing in excess.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Never expect the unexpected to be predictable.

What we learn after we know it all, is what counts.

Typesetters always correct intentional errors, but fail to correct unintentional ones.

There's nothing to scratch but the surface.

An object will fall so as to do the most damage.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Procrastination shortens the job and places the responsibility for its termination on someone else (i.e., the authority who imposed the deadline.)

The theory is supported as long as the funds are.

Unlimited warranties are usually neither.

The best parts of anything are always impossible to remove from the worst parts.

Research is reading two books that have never been read in order to write a third that will never be read.

Caveats are always* forgotten.
*Caveat: except in rare instances

1. You can get “anywhere” in ten minutes if you go fast enough.
2. Speed bumps are of negligible effect when the vehicle exceeds triple the desired restraining speed.
3. The vehicle in front of you is traveling slower than you are.
4. This lane ends in 500 feet.

If “sense” is so common, how come we don’t see more of it around?