Book: The Complete Murphy's Laws. Page 2

No matter what troubles arise, there will always be a person who knew that they would be so.

Murphy's law was not formulated by Murphy himself, but by his namesake.

Things get worse under pressure.

Whatever bad happens, it will most likely appear normal later on.

A titmouse in the hands is safer than a crane overhead.

Sometimes a person stumbles over the truth, but most of the time he gets up, dusts himself off, and moves on.

If you want your track and field team to win the high jump, you have to find one person who jumps seven feet, not seven people who jump a foot each.

The only imperfect creation of nature is man.

As long as legislatures are in session, human life, liberty, and private property are threatened.

The section of society that you, as a liberal, sympathize with, inevitably turns out to be one of the most narrow-minded and limited.

The truth of any assumption has nothing to do with its plausibility, and vice versa.

The total amount of evil in the system is constant. Consequently, any decrease in one of the parameters - for example, the successful fight against unemployment or poverty - is accompanied by an increase in another - say, crime or atmospheric pollution.

If you're trying to predict what effect a politician's economic decree will have on the macroeconomics, don't believe what he says. Watch what he does.