Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 81)

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.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

(1909 – 1993) British naval historian & author

Those who don’t study the past will repeat its errors; those who do study it will find OTHER ways to err.

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.

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

Exceptions prove the rule… and wreck the budget.

No matter how often the lie is shown to be false, there will still remain a percentage of people who believe it true.

If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are sure to get out of it.

The colder the X-Ray table, the more of your body you are required to place on it.

Them what gets – has.

There's no such thing as a large 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.

The more carefully you plan a project, the more confusion there is when something goes wrong.

It is usually impractical to worry beforehand about interferences; if you have none, someone will make one for you.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

No matter which way you ride, it's uphill and against the wind.

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

Food consumed standing up always has ten times the calorific intake of food consumed sitting down.

People will believe anything if you whisper it.

With extremely few exceptions, nothing is worth the trouble.

Things are never as bad as they turn out to be.