Nothing is as easy as it looks.
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
Two wrongs are only the beginning.
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.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Every solution breeds new problems..
If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then..
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Exceptions prove the rule ... and wreck the budget.
Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
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.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Trust everybody ... then cut the cards.
Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
Everything takes longer than you think..
Two wrongs are only the beginning.
2007-11-26 04:06:59 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Sounds like Murphy must have had bad luck every ding dong day of his life. hahaha
2007-11-26 04:24:04 · answer #1 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I once met retired Air Force Captain Murphy at a dinner engagement many years ago. He's the author of that law. He wrote it while conducting some aircraft tests at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
I'm a devotee of another law. One which makes Murphy's Law appear optimistic by comparison. It's Warnecke's Law:
"The odds are eight to five that the light at the end of the tunnel is on the front of an oncoming express train".
2007-11-26 06:24:00 · answer #2 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
O'Toole's rejoinder to Murphy's Law: Murphy was an optimist.
2007-11-26 07:36:51 · answer #3 · answered by TRAF 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know that all of those are true. Many times I've said "that will be easy".... only to be proven so wrong.
2007-11-26 05:17:28 · answer #4 · answered by noonecanne 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
was Murphy Irish
2007-11-26 04:28:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When your back is too painful to bend, you keep dropping things on the floor.
2007-11-26 09:44:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Never saw so many variations -- cool.
2007-11-26 04:33:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
found them interesting and very true
2007-11-26 10:02:44 · answer #8 · answered by Diamond 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it can happen it will.
2007-11-26 04:21:39 · answer #9 · answered by inthedark 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
never thought of it like this.........makes sense.........thanks.......
2007-11-26 04:11:16 · answer #10 · answered by Melissa R 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋