Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem. — Thomas Pynchon
The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be. — Dorothy Parker
If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law! — Grace Hopper
Strummer's Law: No input, no output. — Joe Strummer
In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs. — John Pentland Mahaffy
Life is a funny thing, the minute you think you've got everything figured out something comes along and turns it all upside down. — Zayn Malik
The law of life is the law of belief. — Joseph Murphy
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. — Andy Rooney
Zeroth law: You must play the game
First law: You can't win
Second law: You can't break even
Third law: You can't quit the game. — C.P. Snow
Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan. — Simon Sinek
Life is just one damned thing after another. — Elbert Hubbard
There are two laws of laziness: 1. Don’t do anything you don’t have to do, and 2. All problems will resolve themselves given enough time. — Jensen Huang
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. — Steven Wright
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. — Bret Harte
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens. — Fay Weldon
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. — Edmund Burke
Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere. — Robert Fulghum
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley
Luck is the residue of opportunity and design. — Branch Rickey
Expect the unexpected. — Bear Bryant
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. — Jean De La Fontaine
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose. — T. D. Jakes
Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy — Joseph Murphy
I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard. — Cam Newton
Laws control a lesser person, right conduct controls a greater one.
The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable. — Charles Bukowski
Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for. — Charlyne Yi
Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way. — Clint Smith
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under god is acknowledged.
Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year. — Dan Quayle
Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff. — Kobe Bryant
All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door. — Woody Allen
When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family. — Jim Butcher
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. — Erma Bombeck
Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of. — Agnes Allen
Know what you're talking about. — George H. W. Bush
People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made. — Mark Twain
There are no answers, only cross references. — Norbert Wiener
Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some. — Tom Wicker
If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it. — Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike. — Banksy
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong — Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. — Steven Wright
And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something. — Dennis Muren
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later — Fred Brooks
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value. — Mignon McLaughlin
Don't get mad, get even. — Robert Kennedy
There's more than one way to be a girl — Lauren Faust
Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time. — Paul Dickson
Nobody notices when things go right. — George Zimmerman
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. — Robert A. Heinlein
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done. — H. L. Mencken
That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference. — Tucker Carlson
An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance — David Lee Roth
Love is the most dangerous thing in the world. — Jennifer Beals
When all else fails, read the instructions. — Agnes Allen
The first myth of management is that it exists. — Robert Heller
'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently. — Alan Blinder
The Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer. — John Peers
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. — Arthur Bloch
Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down. — Dick Sharples
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.” – Chloe Traeger — Jill Shalvis
The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group. — Lane Kirkland
[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down. — Maxine Cheshire
An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most. — Arthur Bloch
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example. — Paul Dickson
I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense. — Garrison Keillor
Everything was a constant battle. My first film was beautiful. I got an amazing cast. That worked out great. Everything else was like murphy's law. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. — Katie Aselton
There were a number of particularly delightful incidents. There is, for example, the physicist who introduced me to one of my favorite laws, which he described as Murphys law or the fourth law of thermodynamics (actually there were only three last I heard) which states: If anything can go wrong it will. — Anne Roe
I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and that maybe one or two would be successful. So I always kind of expected I’d write at least one successful film in my life. [...] The way it all came together was kind of like Murphy's law in reverse—I don’t expect that kind of experience again any time soon. — Michael Arndt
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself. — A. H. Weiler
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