Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 66)

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Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Fools Individuals Intelligence Murphy’s Laws People

Keep up with the Grabowskis… you'll never make enough to keep up with the Joneses.

Money Murphy’s Laws

No plan survives first contact intact.

Military Murphy’s Laws

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you; tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.

Beliefs Murphy’s Laws

If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.

Education Murphy’s Laws School

Short-term success with voters on any side of a given issue can be guaranteed by creating a long-term special study commission made up of at least three divergent interest groups.

Elections/Voting Government Murphy’s Laws Politicians

The difference between a politician and a snail is that a snail leaves its slime behind.

Murphy’s Laws Politicians

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

Love letters, business contracts and money due you always arrive three weeks late, whereas junk mail arrives the day it was sent.

Murphy’s Laws Time

A good place to start from is where you are.

Murphy’s Laws

Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will find a need for them an hour later.

Murphy’s Laws

When you're not in a hurry, the traffic light will turn green as soon as your vehicle comes to a complete stop.

Autos Murphy’s Laws

People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

If you find yourself in front of your platoon they know something you don't.

Military Murphy’s Laws

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want.

Murphy’s Laws Success

If you dance with a grizzly bear, you had better let him lead.

Murphy’s Laws

The army with the smartest dress uniform will lose.

Conflict Military Murphy’s Laws

Spend sufficient time in confirming the need and the need will disappear.

Murphy’s Laws Time

When anything is used to its full potential, it will break.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

A consultant is someone who, when hired to find out what time it is, borrows your watch to find out.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Whatever creates the greatest inconvenience for the largest number must happen.

Murphy’s Laws People