The number of times the toast falls butter side down increases in direct proportion to the value of the rug or the price of the butter.
Marcelene Cox (1900-1998) American writer, columnist, aphorist
“Ask Any Woman” column, Ladies’ Home Journal (1951-09)
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A variant on the Butter-Side-Down Law.
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Murphy’s Law
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The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.
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A. Kindsvater, “MIST’s Law” [Man in the Street]
1. Nothing is as easy as it looks.
2. Everything takes longer than you think.
3. If there is possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.(Other Authors and Sources)
Murphy’s Law: Corollaries
In Arthur Bloch, Murphy's Law: And Other Reasons Why Things Go gnorW, "Murphyology" (1979). See Murphy's Law.
If there is a wrong thing to do, it will be done, infallibly. One has come to believe in that as if it were a law of nature.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Diary Entry (1941-05-18), “First War-Time Diary”
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In context, Orwell is complaining about what he considers squandered opportunities by Britain to occupy Vichy French territories, such as Syria, before Germany could make use of them.
See Murphy's Law.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
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“Murphy’s Law” (1949)
Direct variants:The history behind Murphy's Law -- and its very similar antecedents -- is long and disputed, unsurprising given its simple sentiments. It is most often attributed (via the name) to Capt. Edward Murphy, a development engineer working on rapid deceleration G-force tests, and first named as such by Dr. John Stapp, a US Air Force colonel and Flight Surgeon overseeing the project.
- "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."
- "Everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong."
More information:See also Orwell.
- Murphy's law - Wikipedia
- The Real-Life Murphy and How 'Murphy's Law' Came to Be | Military.com
- The Evolutionary Psychology of Murphy's Law | Psychology Today
- Murphy's law - Wikiquote
If several things that could have gone wrong have not gone wrong, it would have been ultimately beneficial for them to have gone wrong.
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The Last Law
In Arthur Bloch, Murphy's Law: Book Two, preface (1980)