MURPHY'S LAWS - No good deed goes unpunished - Leakproof seals - will - Self starters - will not - Interchangeable parts - won't - There is always one more bug - Nature is a mother - Don't mess with Mrs. Murphy! - 90% of everything is crud - If you're feeling good, don't worry, you'll get over it - Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong - All warranties expire upon payment of invoice - Where you stand on an issue depends on where you sit - Never eat prunes when you are famished - Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate - If you try to please everybody, nobody will like it - A short cut is the longest distance between two points - You will always find something in the last place you look - The chance of a piece of bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet - No matter how long or hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper - No one's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session - The other line always moves faster - In order to get a loan, you must first prove you don't need it - Anything you try to fix will take longer and cost more than you thought - If you fool around with a thing for very long you will screw it up - A $300.00 picture tube will protect a 10› fuse by blowing it first - If it jams - force it, if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway - Any tool dropped while repairing a car will roll underneath to the exact center - The repaiman will never have seen a model quite like yours before - When a broken appliance is demonstrated for the repairman, it will work perfectly - A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth - Everybody should believe in something - I believe I'll have another drink - Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will use it - Everyone has a scheme for getting rich that will not work - In any hierarchy, each individual rises to his own level of incompe- tence, and then remains there - You will remember that you forgot to take out the trash when the garbage truck is two doors away - The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet - There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over - When in doubt, mumble, when in trouble, delegate - Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening - It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money - A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead - Murphy's Golden Rule: Whoever has the gold makes the rules - Everything east of the San Andreas Fault will eventually plunge into the Atlantic Ocean - Nature always sides with the hidden flaw - The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of an oncoming train - Celibacy is not hereditary - Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself - Beauty is only skin deep, ugly goes to the bone - To know yourself is the ultimate form of aggression (Freudian psy- chology) - Never play leapfrog with a unicorn - A Smith & Wesson beats four aces - If everything seems to be going well, you obviosly don't know what the hell is going on - If more than one person is responsible for a miscalculation, no one will be at fault - In case of doubt, make it sound convincing - Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference