Small Collection of Murphy's Laws (see also here ...)

• 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.

• Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.

• 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.

• 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.

• Every solution breeds new problems.

• It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

• Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

• When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal.

• The other line (lane) always moves faster.

• Murphy was an optimist...

• Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics: Things get worse under pressure.

• The Murphy Philosophy: Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.

• Quantization Revision of Murphy's Laws: Everything goes wrong all at once.

• Murphy's Constant: Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value

• Murphy's Law of Research: Enough research will tend to support your theory.

• In nature, nothing is ever right. Therefore, if everything is going right... something is wrong.

• Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

• Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

• If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

•  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.

• Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will use it.

• 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.

• Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

• Murphy's golden rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules.

• Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.

•  No good deed goes unpunished.

"All general statements are wrong."     Anonymous
(including this one...)