Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 83)

Infinity is one lawyer waiting for another.

Once a dish is fouled up, anything added to save it only makes it worse.

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

Crowded lifts (elevators) smell different to people with restricted growth.

The gifts you buy your wife are never as appropriate as the gifts your neighbor buys his wife.

If a situation requires undivided attention, it will occur simultaneously with a compelling distraction.


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.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

The possibility of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says "you can't miss it."

Whatever you did, that's what you planned.

Ninety percent of “everything” is crud.

Food that tastes the best has the highest number of calories.

If you didn’t forget it, it’s the wrong size, backwards, inside out or out of reach.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions.

Any facts which, when included in the argument, give the desired result, are fair facts for the argument.

Everything is cold except what should be.

The one time during the day you lean back and relax is the one time the boss walks by.

No books are lost by loaning except those you particularly wanted to keep.

People who eat natural foods will die of natural causes.

The book you spent $20.95 for today will come out in paperback tomorrow.