» All of Murphy’s Laws can be overcome by simply learning the art of acting without thinking. (Wingo’s Axiom)
» All the things that go bad, go bad at once.
» And even if something seems impossible to go bad, it might go bad anyway and quite soon. (Barton’s amendment to murphy’s law)
» At any given event, the people whose seats are the furthest from the aisle, are the ones to arrive the last. (Breda’s rule)
» Everything takes longer than you expect.
» If everything seems to be working fine, you’re certainly missing something.
» If there is a possibility for several things to go wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
» If you’re feeling good, don’t worry. You’ll get over it. (Boling’s postulate)
» If you play with an object for long enough and you are preoccupied with not braking it, you will certainly will break it.
» Left alone, things will get worse and worse.
» Murphy’s laws never fail. (Crowell’s law)
» No good deed remains unpunished. (Luce’s law)
» No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look as if everything goes right. (Scott’s first law)
» Nothing is ever as simple as it seems!
» Smile! Tomorrow will be worse! (Murphy’s philosophy)
» The chances of running into someone you know are higher when you are accompanied by someone you don’t want to be seen with. (Ruby’s principle)
» The moment you take a break to enjoy a hot cup of coffee, your boss will ask you to do something that will take exactly as long as it takes your coffee to get cold. (Owen’s law of personal assistants)
» The other lane always moves faster. (Ettorre’s observation)
» The phone rings when you have something under water. (Bell’s theorem)
» There’s always an easier way. (Iles’ law)
Corollary: When you wish to find the easier way, especially for longer periods of time, you won’t see it until it’s too late.
» Things get worse when you’re under the pressure to make them right. (The Thermodynamics law)
» Whatever it is that you wish and should do, there’s always something else that needs to be done first. (The Law of Priorities)
» When qualified professionals spend a lot of time trying to find the solution to a problem, without any success whatsoever, the right solution will appear as evident to the first unqualified person.
» When things are bad somewhere, they will, pretty soon, get bad everywhere.
» When two cars are traveling on a very narrow road on which there’s a very narrow bridge they always travel in opposite directions and will meet at the bridge, no matter where its location. (The Open Road law)
» When you notice four chances of something going wrong and you manage to avoid them all, a fifth one will promptly come up.
» Your car will work when you try to prove it to your mechanic that it doesn’t. (Willoughby’s law)

» A crisis is when you can’t say: "Let’s forget about all this". (Ferguson’s concept)
» If an object can be borrowed and broken, you will borrow it and brake it. (Bill Babcock’s law)
» Never be the first one to do something. (The Infallible Law)
» There’s no limit to how bad things can get. (Hane’s law)

» Those who have a hard time paying the rent will pay the rent. Those who don’t have a hard time paying the rent will become home owners. (Perlsweig’s law)

» As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse. (Buchwald’s law)
» Money costs too much. (Lew Archer’s law)
» No matter how much money you save today, you will need it tomorrow to pay an unexpected bill. (The natural law of money)
» We trust God; everyone else pays cash. (Lani’s third economical principle)

» If a problem leads to many meetings, the meetings will, eventually, become more important than the problem itself. (Hendrikson’s law)
» If there is a way to postpone an important decision, bureaucracy – be it public or private – will find it. (Parkinson’s 5th law)
» Say “NO”, then negotiate. (Helga’s rule)
» Team work is essential. It gives you the chance to blame others. (Finagle’s eighth rule)
» You never know who’s right, but you always know who’s in charge. (Whistler’s law)

» Dirksen’s rules of politics:
   1. Get elected
   2. Get reelected
   3. Don’t get mad, get reasonable.
» It is easier to be liberal far away from home. (Price’s law of politics)
» The longer the title, the less important the position. (McGovern’s law)

» Any simple idea will be presented in the most complicated way possible. (Malek’s law)
» Enough research will support what ever theory.
» If two pieces of bad news don’t make one piece of good news, try three.
» If your experiment was successful, it means you used a defective equipment. (Bowie’s theorem)
» Nobody listens to you until you make a mistake.
» Pocket guide for modern sciences:
   1. if it’s green or it moves , it’s Biology;
   2. if it smells nasty, it’s Chemistry;
   3. if it doesn’t work, it’s Physics;
   4. if you can’t understand it, it’s Math;
   5. if it doesn’t make any sense, it’s either Economics or Psychology.
» The most interesting results can only be achieved once. (Tenenbaum’s law)
» There’s a solution to every problem. The only problem is finding it. (Evie Nef’s law)

» In any given situation, the most difficult thing to do is, usually, the one that needs to be done. (Meyer’s law)
» It’s hard to believe that on such a beautiful day anyone could be unhappy, but we’ll do our best. (Barr’s comment about domestic peace)
» The only people who find what they’re looking for in life, are those people looking for mistakes. (Foster’s law)
» There’s something wrong if you’re always right. (Glasgow’s law)
» Whatever happens, act as if it was in the script. (The actor’s first law)
» When people are free to do whatever they want, they usually imitate one another. (Hoffer’s law)