Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 60)

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.

Some people fish in the Sea of Life without bait.

Thinly sliced cabbage.

A professional is one who does a good job even when he doesn't feel like it.

Envelopes and stamps which don't stick when you lick them will stick to other things when you don't want them to.

1. Any great truth can – and eventually will – be expressed as a cliche.

2. Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

Children should be heard, not obscene.

1. If you're wondering if you took the meat out to thaw, you didn't. 2. If you're wondering if you left the coffee pot plugged in, you did.

Twitter makes you like people you don’t know, and Facebook makes you hate people you do.

No politician talks taxes during an election year.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Passengers on elevators constantly rearrange their positions as people get on and off so there is at all times an equal distance between all bodies.

Anyone having supervisory responsibility for the completion of a task will invariably protest that more resources are needed.

A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules.

Sin now – pray later.

The mud that won’t come off on the doormat immediately adheres to the carpet.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

(1909 – 1993) British naval historian & author

In a bureaucracy, accomplishment is inversely proportional to the volume of paper used.

The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions.

If you understand it, it's obsolete.

You can go home again – you just can’t stay there.