Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 67)

Everything put together sooner or later falls apart.

The workbench is always untidier than last time. General Law: The chaos in the universe always increases.

An apple every eight hours keeps three doctors away.

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much… then again, don’t drink too little.

When a body is immersed in water, the telephone will ring.

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

Authority tends to assign jobs to those least able to do them.

The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack.

To err is human, so do not use up the eraser before the pencil.

The one who says it can’t be done shouldn’t interrupt the one doing it.

Politicians who vote huge expenditures to alleviate problems get re-elected; those who propose structural changes to prevent problems get early retirement.

The intensity of movie publicity is in inverse ratio to the quality of the movie.

The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.

Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least.

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

All laws are basically false.

In any dealings with a collective body of people, the people will always be more tacky than originally expected.

Nothing looks as good close up as it does from far away.

No matter how careful one is in resealing the inner liner in a cereal box, it will tear where it is glued to the box.

Second-rate people hire third-rate people.