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The House Of Murphy
Murphy's home
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- Jacquin's Postulate on Democratic Governments:
- No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
- Jake's Law:
- Anything hit with a big enough hammer will fall apart.
- Jaroslovsky's Law:
- The distance you have to park from your apartment increases in proportion to the weight of packages you are carrying.
- Jay's Laws of Leadership:
- Changing things is central to leadership, and changing them before anyone else is creativity.
- To build something that endures, it is of the greatest important to have a long tenure in office -- to rule for many years. You can achieve a quick success in a year or two, but nearly all of the great tycoons have continued their building much longer.
- Jenkinson's Law:
- It won't work.
- Jinny's Law:
- There is no such thing as a short beer (As in, "I'm going to stop off at Joe's for a short beer before on the way home").
- John's Axiom:
- When your opponent is down, kick him.
- John's Collateral Corollary:
- In order to get a loan you must first prove you don't need it.
- Johnson's First Law:
- When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time.
- Johnson's Second Law:
- If, in the course of several months, only three worthwhile social events take place, they will all fall on the same evening.
- Johnson's Third Law:
- If you miss one issue of any magazine, it will be the issue containing the article, story, or installment you were most anxious to read.
- Corollary: All of your friends either missed it, lost it, or threw it out.
- Johnson's First Law of Auto Repair:
- Any tool dropped while repairing an automobile will roll under the car to the vehicle's exact geographic center.
- Johnson-Laird's Law:
- Toothache tends to start on Saturday night.
- Jones's Law:
- The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.
- Jones's Motto:
- Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- McClaughry's Codicil on Jones's Motto: To make an enemy, do someone a favor.
- Jones's Principle:
- Needs are a function of what other people have.
- Juhani's Law:
- The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it's compromising.
Murphy's home
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