Murphys Law Quotes

• 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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• Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong

  Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

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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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• Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.

  Jennifer Beals

  Love Is, World, Danger

  PlanetOut Inc. Interview, 2004.

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• An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

  Arthur Bloch

  Jobs, Experts, Cost

  Arthur Bloch (2003). “Murphy's Law: The 26th Anniversary Edition: The 26th Anniversary Edition”, p.26, Penguin

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• [On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Climbing, Social, Sociability

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• Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.

  Tom Wicker

  Government, Revenue

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• If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.

  Yogi Berra

  God, Running, Worry

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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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• That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

  Tucker Carlson

  Differences, People, Might

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

  Lane Kirkland

  Groups, Size, Meetings

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• After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.

  H. L. Mencken

  Done, Hell, Said

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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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• Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Procrastination, Political, Denial

  The Law of Delay ch. 13 (1971)

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• Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.

  George Ade

  Hilarious, Sarcastic, Laughter

  Fables in Slang (1900) p. 133

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• Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Humor

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• Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Education, Hate, Humor

  Attributed without source in "Message Passing Server Internals" by Bill Blunden, (p. 15), 2003.

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• Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

  Arthur Bloch

  Support, Research, Enough

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• If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

  Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

  Success, Two, Way

  "Jargon File". Book by Eric S. Raymond and Guy L. Steele Jr., 1983.

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• Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

  Steven Tyler

  Humor, Vegas, Tunnels

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• To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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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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• The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Learning, Experts

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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 are talking about.

  Pope John Paul II

  Knowledge, Knowing Jesus, Talking

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