Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 57)

To err is human – to blame it on someone else is even more human.

If you allow someone to get in front of you, you both will have the same destination, and the other car will get the last parking space.

If you can’t get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

If you miss one issue of any magazine, it will be the issue that contains the article, story or installment you were most anxious to read.

All great discoveries are made by mistake

Corollary: The greater the funding, the longer it takes to make the mistake.

Whatever you want, you can’t have, what you can have, you don’t want.

To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

Nobody notices the big errors.

You can always find what you're not looking for.

The first place to look for anything is the last place you would expect to find it.

A rumor will travel fastest to the place where it will cause the greatest harm.

Negative slack tends to increase.

Them what gets – has.

Fortify your front; you’ll get your rear shot up.

Love is a matter of chemistry; sex is a matter of physics.

An unbreakable toy is good for breaking other toys.

Laziness is the mother of nine inventions out of ten.

People ask stupid questions for a reason.

That which cannot be taken apart will fall apart.

A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.

When you need to knock on wood is when you realize that the world is composed of vinyl, naugahyde and aluminum.