Edward A. Murphy Jr. Quotes

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen.

When you're losing, crap happens.

Bad things can happen even to the best players.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Alas! how easily things go wrong!

Things have a way of turning out so badly.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

It's always something

Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.