Murphy's Laws
- If anything can go wrong, it will.
- The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability.
- Nothing is as easy as it looks.
- Everything takes longer than you think.
- Work always expands to fill the time available for doing it.
- Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
- The other line always moves faster.
- When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.
- You will remember that you forgot to take out the trash when the garbage truck is two doors away.
- The chance of the bread falling with the peanut butter-and-jelly side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
- Any tool dropped while repairing a car will roll underneath to the exact center.
- There are two kinds of dirt: a light kind that is attracted to dark objects, and a dark kind that is attracted to light objects.
- The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of an oncoming train.
- Inside every small problem is a large problem struggling to get out.
- Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
- No matter how long or hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale somewhere else for less.
- You will never find an article until you replace it.
- Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
- People are always promoted to their level of incompetence.
- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
- Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
- Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
- An object in motion will be headed in the wrong direction.
- An object at rest will be in the wrong place.
- Murphy was an optimist.
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