murphy's laws ...

The humor of Murphy's Law leaves you laughing at the end of the day. If you make it through a Murphy Day...you win! I have listed just a fraction of these laws, to get a exhaustive list on this click here.

  • Murphy's golden rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules.
  • Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.
  • If you want something bad enough, chances are you won't get it.
  • If anything can go wrong, it will.
  • 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.
  • If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
  • If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
  • Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
  • If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
  • Things get worse under pressure (Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics).
  • Everything goes wrong all at once (Quantization Revision of Murphy's Laws).
  • Nothing is as easy as it looks.
  • Everything takes longer than you think.
  • Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
  • Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value. (Example: The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet. LOL! :) )
  • Every solution breeds new problems.
  • You will always find something in the last place you look.
  • No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.
  • In order to get a loan, you must first prove you don't need it.
  • If you fool around with a thing for very long you will screw it up.
  • Everyone has a scheme for getting rich that will not work.
  • In any hierarchy, each individual rises to his own level of incompetence, and then remains there.
  • 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.
  • Your best golf shots always occur when playing alone.
  • The worst golf shots always occur when playing with someone you are trying to impress.
  • Great ideas are never remembered and dumb statements are never forgotten.
  • Where patience fails, force prevails.
  • We can give you a diploma, but we can't give you a brain.
  • Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD.
  • Chaos always wins, because it's better organized.
  • When you wear new shoes for the first time, everyone will step on them.
  • It takes forever to learn the rules and once you've learned them they change again.
  • You will find an easy way to do it, after you've finished doing it.
  • Behind every little problem there's a larger problem, waiting for the little problem to get out of the way.
  • The file you are looking for is always at the bottom of the largest pile.
  • Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
  • Common Sense Is Not So Common
  • Power Is Taken... Not Given.
  • The only price you pay for greatness is knowing that it can't last forever.