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1. Nothing minor ever happens to a car on the weekend. 2. Nothing minor ever happens to a car on a trip. 3. Nothing minor ever happens to a car.
Hartman's Automotive Laws
Autos
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Weekends
A component’s degree of reliability is directly proportional to its ease of accessibility (i.e., the harder it is to get to, the more often it breaks down).
Waddell's Law of Equipment Failure
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Things
Accessibility
Reliability
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead
(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Death
Mistakes
Problems
For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong.
H.L. Mencken
(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Solutions
Wrong
Envelopes and stamps which don't stick when you lick them will stick to other things when you don't want them to.
Fourth Law of Office Murphology
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Things
Envelopes
Stamps
Anything dropped in the bathroom falls in the toilet.
Flucard's Corollary
Accidents
Murphy’s Laws
Bathroom
Mishaps
Toilets
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Lewis Thomas
Problems
Science/Weather
Cloning
Whenever you decide to take the kids home, it is always five minutes earlier that they break into fights, tears, or hysteria.
Richman's Inevitables of Parenthood IV
Children
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Time
The last person who quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong – until the next person quits or is fired.
Sixth Law of Office Murphology
Characteristics
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Responsibility
[My husband] and I are always fighting; when we get up in the morning, we don't kiss; we touch gloves.
Phyllis Diller
(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress
Conflict
Marriage
Problems
Assumption is the mother of all foul-ups.
Tylk's Law
Mistakes
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
(also Wethern’s Law)
Assumption
It is better to have a horrible ending than to have horrors without end.
Matsch's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Situations
It’s a dog-eat-dog world, Sammy, and I’m wearing Milk-Bone underwear.
Norm
George Wendt (1948 – ) American actor
Life
Problems
TV/Movie Quotes
As Norm Peterson in “Cheers”
Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.
Ricky Gervais
(1961 – ) English comedian, actor, director, producer & writer
Problems
Situations
TV/Movie Quotes
As David Brent in “The Office”
Avoid any action with an unacceptable outcome.
Nichols' Fourth Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Any attempt to print Murphy's laws will jam the printer.
Anonymous
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Printers
When taking something apart to fix a minor malfunction, you will cause a major malfunction.
Murphy's Second Law of Construction
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Repairs
I don’t have a solution, but I admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant
(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist
Problems
Solutions
No job is too small to botch.
Hylton's Rule
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
Everything is in a state of utter dishevelment.
Wallace's Observation
Life
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents’ shortcomings.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Failure
Family
Confessing
Faults
Psychiatry
Shortcomings
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