Murphy's Law's
1.Murphy's First Law: Nothing is as easy as it looks.
2.Murphy's Second Law: Everything takes longer than you think.
3.Murphy's Third Law: In any field of scientific endeavor, anything
that can go
wrong will go wrong.
4.Murphy's Fourth Law: 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.
5.Murphy's Fifth Law: If anything just cannot go wrong, it will
anyway.
6.Murphy's Sixth Law: If you perceive that there are four possible
ways in
which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent
these, then a fifth way,
unprepared for, will promptly develop.
7.Murphy's Seventh Law: Left to themselves, things tend to go
from bad to
worse.
8.Murphy's Eighth Law: If everything seems to be going well,
you have
obviously overlooked something.
9.Murphy's Ninth Law: Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
10.Murphy's Tenth Law: Mother Nature is a bitch.
11.Murphy's Eleventh Law: It is impossible to make anything
foolproof, because
fools are so ingenious.
12.Schmidt's Observation: All things being equal, a fat person
uses more soap
than a thin person.
13.Nick the Greek's Law of Life: All things considered, life
is 9 to 5 against.
14.Nowlan's Theory: He who hesitates is not only lost, but several
miles from the
next freeway exit.
15.Van Roy's Law: Honesty is the best policy - there's less competition.
16.Van Roy's Truism: Life is a whole series of circumstances
beyond your
control.
17.Agnes' Law: Almost everything in life is easier to get into
than out of.
18.Clarke's Conclusion: Never let your sense of morals interfere
with doing the
right thing.
19.Goda's Truism: By the time you get to the point where you
can make ends
meet, somebody moves the ends.
20.Johnny Carson's Definition: The smallest interval of time
known to man is
that which occurs in Manhattan between the
traffic signal turning green and
the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.
21.Wilner's Observation: All conversations with a potato should
be conducted in
private.
22.The Phone Booth Rule: A lone dime always gets the number nearly
right.
23.Zall's Laws: (1) Any time you get a mouthful of hot soup,
the next thing you
do will be wrong. (2) How long a minute is,
depends on which side of the
bathroom door you're on.
24.Ettore's Observation: The other line moves faster.
25.Griffin's Thought: When you starve with a tiger, the tiger
starves last.
26.Manly's Maxim: Logic is a systematic method of coming to the
wrong
conclusion with confidence.
27.Cann's Axiom: When all else fails, read the instructions.
28.Macaluso's Doctrine: You've never been as sick as just before
you stop
breathing.
29.Knebel's Law: It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is
one of the
leading causes of statistics.
30.The Law of Selective Gravity, or the Buttered-Side Down Law:
An object
will fall so as to do the most damage.
31.Stale's Law: No matter how careful one is in resealing the
inner liner in a
cereal box, it will tear where it is glued
to the box.
32.William's Law: There is no mechanical problem so difficult
that it cannot be
solved by brute strength and ignorance.