Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 69)

Important things that are supposed to happen do not happen, especially when people are looking.

There is always a way… and it usually doesn’t work.

If it can be borrowed and it can be broken, you will borrow it and you will break it.

In matters of dispute, the bank's balance is always smaller than yours.

The best simple-minded test of expertise in a particular area is the ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday.

Any paint, regardless of quality or composition, will adhere permanently to any surface, prepared or otherwise, if applied accidentally.

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

Verbs has to agree with their subject.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

Everything is cold except what should be.

Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.

1. The telephone will ring when you are outside the door, fumbling for your keys.
2. You will reach it just in time to hear the click of the caller hanging up.

You will save yourself a lot of needless worry if you don't burn your bridges until you come to them.

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

Everything costs more and takes longer.

The business contact that you have developed at great expense is the first person to be let go in any corporate reorganization.

Teamwork is essential… it allows you to blame someone else.

All probabilities are 50%; either a thing will happen or it won't.