Empirically Proven Laws of Murphy

Murphy's general laws


Murphy's Military Laws


Murphy's Technology Laws


Murphy's Laws of Love


Murphy's Laws of sex


Murphy's Law of Research

Enough research will tend to support your theory.

Murphy's Law of Copiers

The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its importance.

Murphy's Law of the Open Road:

When there is a very long road upon which there is a one-way bridge placed at random, and there are only two cars on that road, it follows that: the two cars are going in opposite directions, and... they will always meet at the bridge.

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

Law of the Perversity of Nature (Mrs. Murphy's Corollary):

You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.

Corollary (Jenning):

The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

Hill's Commentaries on Murphy's Laws

O'Toole's Commentary

Murphy was an optimist.

NBC's Addendum to Murphy's Law

You never run out of things that can go wrong.

F@b's comment to Murphy's Law

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