Murphys Law Quotes - Page 2

• An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Funny, Encouraging, Education

  Commencement address at Columbia University

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• Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Procrastination, Political, Denial

  The Law of Delay ch. 13 (1971)

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• To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

  Joan Rivers

  Humor, Las Vegas, Tunnels

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

  Mark Twain

  Law, People, Watches

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• Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.

  Dick Sharples

  Funny, Death, Way

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• The first myth of management is that it exists.

  Robert Heller

  Boss, Firsts, Management

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• The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

  Erma Bombeck

  Hilarious, Funny Life, Food

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• No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Trust, Freedom

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

  John Peers

  Peers, Answers, Helping

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• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Technology, Possible And Impossible

  Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.

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• Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.

  A. H. Weiler

  Men, Sloth, Laziness

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• Know what you're talking about.

  George H. W. Bush

  Knowing Jesus, Talking, Scary

  George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

  Arthur Bloch

  Support, Research, Enough

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• Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way.

  Clint Smith

  Military, Gun, Fire

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Humor, Use It Or Lose It

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• I see light at the end of the tunnel.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  Positive, Humor, Vegas

  Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

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• There is more than one way to burn a book.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Way, Censorship

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sarcastic, Freedom, Sarcasm

  Passionate State of Mind (1955) p. 21

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• There are no answers, only cross references.

  Norbert Wiener

  Answers, Crosses

  "Norbert Wiener 1894-1964". Book by Pesi R. Masani, Vita Mathematica, p. 337, 1990.

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• Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

  Louis Nizer

  Believe, People, Ifs

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• We live in the best of all possible worlds

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Optimistic

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2008). “Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Doors, Water Skiing

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• Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

  Charlyne Yi

  Funny Inspirational, Tough, Full Of Yourself

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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  I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.

  Cam Newton

  Tunnels, Light, Rejection

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• Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.

  Jennifer Beals

  Love Is, World, Danger

  PlanetOut Inc. Interview, 2004.

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