Murphy S Law Quotes

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

“Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

“As per usual, trouble comes in several directions at once.”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

“Anything that can possibly go wrong, does”
― John Sack, The Ascent of Yerupaja

“If something can go wrong, it will”
― Murphy's Law

“My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-table

“When you’re kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back—the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy’s Law.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“Murphy's Law; When someone says 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' nine times out of ten, it's the money.”
― Mitchell Symons, That Book of Perfectly Useless Information

“Murphy's Law states that,
"If anything will go wrong, it will".
Positive side of this law is,
"If anything good can happen, it definitely will happen”
― Jiten Bhatt

“Follow the plan until it goes to shit, and then kill everything that isn’t human.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes

“Inadvertently, I had stumbled across what has been called the Harvard law of animal behavior, which is related to Murphy's law: "You can have the most beautifully designed experiment with the most carefully controlled variables, and the animal will do what it damn well pleases.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer

“Limmar Ponyets was completely a-lather when the call reached his receiver - which proves that the old bromide about telemessages and the bathtub holds true even in the dark, hard space of the Galactic Periphery.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“But life's taught me things can always get worse than they are.”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

“Bye bye, plane. Bye bye weekend plans. (Eve)”
― G. Gold, How Dare You - Deadly December

“The universe won’t do this to us,’ I whispered to myself. ‘It’s indifferent, but it isn’t actually cruel.’

Perhaps I believed myself, for a moment or two.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Inhibitor Phase

“Thank you for calling the Law Firm of Sod, Murphy, and Finagle. How can we help you?”
― Wyatt B. Pringle, Jr.