2098 Quotations Found

Wisdom consists of knowing when to avoid perfection.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Horowitz’s Rule | Subject: Wisdom

Everyone has a scheme that will not work.

Munder’s Corollary: Everyone who does not work has a scheme that does.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Howe’s Law | Subject: Gratitude

People who are resistant to change cannot resist change for the worse.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Rule of the Open Mind | Subject: Psychology | Behavior

If you knew what you were doing you’d probably be bored.

Corollary: Just because you’re bored doesn’t mean you know what you’re doing.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Fresco’s Discovery | Subject: Gratitude

Teamwork is essential. It allows you to blame someone else.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Finagle’s Rule for Research | Subject: Gratitude

To learn from your mistakes, you must first realize that you are making mistakes.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Philo’s Law | Subject: Education | Scholarship

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

Author: Murphy’s Corollaries | Subjects: Gratitude, Perception | Observation

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Olivier’s Law | Subjects: Experience, Gratitude

As soon as you mention something, if it’s good it goes away. If it’s bad, it happens.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: The Unspeakable Law | Subject: Miscellaneous

Where there’s a will, there’s a won’t.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Gualtieri’s Law of Inertia | Subjects: Gratitude, Perception | Observation

Man is always ready to die for an idea, provided that the idea is not quite clear to him.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Eldridge’s Law of War | Subjects: Gratitude, Psychology | Behavior

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

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: The Sausage Principle | Subjects: Gratitude, Law | Legal

There is nothing so small that it can’t be blown out of proportion.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Ruckert’s Law | Subjects: Communication, Perception | Observation

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Author: Eugene Ionesco | Subjects: Dreams, Relationships

Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Tussman’s Law | Subjects: Gratitude, Miscellaneous

The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: The Roman Rule | Subjects: Action | Accomplishment, Success / Failure

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Matz’s Maxim | Subjects: Gratitude, Thought | Inquiry

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Weiler’s Law | Subjects: Ability | Skill, Gratitude

The only imperfect thing in nature is the human race.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Fowler’s Note | Subject: Miscellaneous

One child is not enough, but two children are far too many.

Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: O’Toole’s Axiom | Subjects: Family & Friends, Gratitude