Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 9)

Children should be heard, not obscene.

When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience will get the money and the person with the money will get some experience.

The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communications between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding.

Recoilless rifles – aren’t.

When you are served a meal aboard an aircraft, the aircraft will encounter turbulence.

Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

The most expensive component is the one that breaks.

The less you know about an opportunity, the more attractive it is.

Life is a game, the object of which is to discover the object of the game.

If you're coasting, you're going downhill.

The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may diet.

Under current practices, both expenditures and revenues rise to meet each other, no matter which one may be in excess.

Nothing is ever as simple as it first seems.

If you need n items of anything, you will have n – 1 in stock.

A falling body always rolls to the most inaccessible spot.

It won't work.

You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

People to whom you are attracted invariably think you remind them of someone else.

If you break a cup or plate, it will not be the one that was already chipped or cracked.