Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 53)

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If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are sure to get out of it.

Men Murphy’s Laws People Problems

The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Murphy’s Laws Time Work

80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn't read.

Education Murphy’s Laws School

A paint drip will always find the hole in the newspaper and land on the carpet underneath (and will not be discovered until it has dried).

Accidents Murphy’s Laws

Never make a decision that you can get someone else to make.

Murphy’s Laws

If you drop something, it will never reach the ground.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

If the assumptions are wrong, the conclusions aren't likely to be very good.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Murphy’s Laws Time

If you're going to rape, pillage and burn, be sure to do things in that order.

Murphy’s Laws

1. Get elected
2. Get re-elected
3. Don’t get mad, get even.

Anger Elections/Voting Emotions Government Murphy’s Laws Politicians

Truck deliveries that normally take one day will take five when you are waiting for the truck.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Some days it's better to stay in bed.

Murphy’s Laws

1. Other people’s tools work only in other people’s yards. 2. Fancy gizmos don’t work. 3. If nobody uses it, there’s a reason. 4. You get the most of what you need the least.

Murphy’s Laws

Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Murphy’s Laws

When you can’t discover the cause of a breakdown, all of the free advice you get will be for things you’ve already checked.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; if you can't pick it up, paint it.

Military Murphy’s Laws

The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.

Clothing Military Murphy’s Laws

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Murphy’s Laws

A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

Alcohol Ideas Murphy’s Laws

Performance is directly affected by the perversity of inanimate objects.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws