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Murphy’s Laws
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1. The last gas station for 50 miles will be closed when you get there. 2. At the moment of any departure, the level of gas in your tank depends entirely on how late you are. 3. You only run out of gas after your wife tells you to stop for gas before you run out.
Bedard’s Laws of Fossil Fuel
Autos
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Fuel
Gas
Patrick Bedard
Expenditure rises to meet income.
C. Northcote Parkinson
(1909 – 1993) British naval historian & author
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Those who don’t study the past will repeat its errors; those who do study it will find OTHER ways to err.
Wolf's Law of History Lessons
Murphy’s Laws
Past
People
Problems
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong
Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
Murphy's Fourth Law
Murphy’s Laws
Damage
Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will find a need for them an hour later.
Witten's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Fingernails
Exceptions prove the rule… and wreck the budget.
Anonymous Murphy's Law
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Budgets
Exceptions
No matter how often the lie is shown to be false, there will still remain a percentage of people who believe it true.
Law of the Lie
Beliefs
Honesty
Lies
Murphy’s Laws
If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are sure to get out of it.
Austen's Second Law
Men
Murphy’s Laws
People
Problems
Jane Austen
The colder the X-Ray table, the more of your body you are required to place on it.
Edds's Law of Radiology
Murphy’s Laws
X-rays
Them what gets – has.
Wakefield's Refutation of the Iron Law of Distribution
Murphy’s Laws
Possession
There's no such thing as a large whiskey.
Rev. Mahaffy's Observation
Alcohol
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
Whiskey
If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
Murphy's Original Law
Murphy’s Laws
Catastrophies
The more carefully you plan a project, the more confusion there is when something goes wrong.
Fourth Workshop Principle
Murphy’s Laws
Confusion
Planning
It is usually impractical to worry beforehand about interferences; if you have none, someone will make one for you.
Fyfe's Third Law of Revision
Murphy’s Laws
Interferences
The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
Galbraith's Second Law
Appearance
Body
Murphy’s Laws
Places
Women
World
No matter which way you ride, it's uphill and against the wind.
First Law of Bicycling
Murphy’s Laws
Bicycles
Riding
Uphill
Wind
Nothing looks as good close up as it does from far away.
Law of Observation
Appearance
Murphy’s Laws
Food consumed standing up always has ten times the calorific intake of food consumed sitting down.
Gove's Law of Canapés
Eating
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
Calories
Standing
People will believe anything if you whisper it.
Whispered Rule
Beliefs
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Whispering
With extremely few exceptions, nothing is worth the trouble.
Epstein's Axiom
Murphy’s Laws
Trouble
Things are never as bad as they turn out to be.
White’s Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Situations
Richard N. White
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