MURPHY'S LAWS

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MURPHY'S LAWS

 

1. Nothing is as easy as it looks.

2. Everything takes longer than you think.

3. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

4. 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.

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

6. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure

can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will

promptly develop.

7. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

8. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked

something.

9. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

10. Mother nature is always against you.

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

ingenious.

12. Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done

first.

13. Every solution breeds new problems.

 

 

Murphy's Military Laws

 

1. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.

2. No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

3. Friendly fire ain't.

4. The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map.

5. The problem with taking the easy way out is that the enemy has already

mined it.

6. The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy

somebody else to shoot at.

7. The further you are in advance of your own positions, the more likely

your artillery will shoot short.

8. Incoming fire has the right of way.

9. If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush.

10. The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.

11. If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap.

12. The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned

positions.

13. The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming

friendly fire.

14. There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at

you, and miss.

15. Don't be conspicuous. In the combat zone, it draws fire. Out of the

combat zone, it draws sergeants.

16. If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy.