We are all aware of Murphy's Law. But there are others. One of my favorites is Horowitz's First Law of the Admiralty: A collision at sea can ruin your entire day.
Which other laws of life can you share?
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions. Mark Twain
No matter when you last filled it, every grease gun is just a few pumps away from being empty.
And he said, "I want to live as an honest man, to get all I deserve, and to give all I can, and to love a young woman whom I don't understand. Your Highness, your ways are very strange."
"If you push something hard enough, it will fall over" -- Fudd's law of opposition, which, according to Firesign Theater, led to the invention of the motor-operated pushover.
Devoured by giant spiders without benefit of legal counsel isn't called "justice" where I come from!
-Amazon Women On The Moon
From a knife sharpener, a Persian proverb, vaguely remembered: "A blade is not satisfied until it has tasted its owner." (Think about it -- devious wisdom here.)
Jack Edmondson
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When I was a CEO, that was a phrase I would pound into my new managers. ...not to get them to stop good deeds, but for them to realize there might be unintended consequences.