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Things always fall at right angles.
Sprinkle's Law
Accidents
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Things
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel
(1898 – 1981) actor, singer, songwriter & movie producer
Marriage
Men
Mistakes
Experiments should be reproducible… they should all fail in the same way.
Law of Continuity
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Experiments
No job is too small to botch.
Hylton's Rule
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.
Gore Vidal
(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter
Failure
Success
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
Never go out to meet trouble; if you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Calvin Coolidge
(1872 – 1933) 30th U.S. president
Problems
Trouble
Any new activity will cause more trouble than you can possibly imagine.
Bouchier’s Columbus Principle
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Situations
(David Bouchier)
When all else fails, follow instructions.
Allen's Axiom
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Instructions
Coach: Hey Norm, how’s the world been treating you?
Norm: Like a baby treats a diaper.
Norm
George Wendt (1948 – ) American actor
Life
Problems
TV/Movie Quotes
As Norm Peterson in “Cheers”
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
Walter Gropius
(1883 – 1969) German architect & founder of the Bauhaus School
Mistakes
People
Problems
Specialists
No matter what goes wrong, there’s always someone who will say he knew it would.
Murphy’s Fifth Corollary
Murphy’s Laws
People
Problems
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
Earl Warren
(1891 – 1974) 14th U.S. Chief Justice & politician
Problems
Situations
Good
Mechanics, not microbes, are the menace to civilization.
Norman Douglas
(1868 – 1952) British writer
Problems
Mechanics
A $300 picture tube will protect a 10¢ fuse by blowing first.
Electronic theorem of television sets
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Breakage
Expense
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
Poul Anderson
(1926 – 2001) American science fiction writer
Problems
A child will not spill on a dirty floor.
Skoff's Law
Accidents
Children
Spills
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
John F Kennedy
(1917 – 1963) 35th U.S. president
Characteristics
Communication
Problems
Bad
Presidency
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
Mary Buckley
author
Husbands
Marriage
Problems
Hot water
Trouble
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Edward A. Murphy Jr.
(1918 – 1990) American aerospace engineer
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
If you pick up a chunk of broken concrete and try to pitch it into an adjacent lot, it will hit a tree limb and come down right on the driver’s side of your car windshield.
Anonymous Murphy’s Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
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