{"id":3718,"date":"2014-12-09T12:01:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T11:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2014-12-09T12:01:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T11:01:49","slug":"universal-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/universal-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/22152535\/frustration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3720\" src=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/22152535\/frustration.jpg\" alt=\"frustration\" width=\"222\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">If you play with anything long enough it will break.<em> Murphy&#8217;s Law<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">Anything you buy will be in the sale next week.\u00a0<em>Emma Bombeck<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">When ripping an article from a newspaper, the tear is always into and never away from the required article.\u00a0<em>Alan Fraser<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">When you give a child a hammer, everything becomes a nail.\u00a0<em>Leo Kaplan<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">Every household has a box of odd keys. \u00a0None of them will ever be found to fit any lock. \u00a0<em>Pam Brown<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">Preudomme&#8217;s Law of Window Cleaning: \u00a0it&#8217;s on the other side.\u00a0<em>Winston Preudhomme<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">However much a shower control may rotate, the degree of rotation required to change from ice-cold to scalding is never more than one millimeter.<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">Once you start buying first-aid kits you start having accidents. \u00a0<em>George Mikes<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">The first piece of luggage on the airport carousel never belongs to anyone. \u00a0<em>George Roberts<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. \u00a0<em>Lord Chesterfield<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">Gunter&#8217;s Second Law of Air Travel: \u00a0the strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of the coffee. \u00a0<em>Nicholas Gunter<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">Any tool dropped while repairing a car will roll beneath the vehicle to its exact centre. \u00a0<em>Murphy&#8217;s Law of Car Repair.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule. \u00a0<em>William F Buckley<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: \u00a0the shortest line moves the slowest.<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">Wood burns faster when you have cut and chopped it yourself \u00a0<em>Harrison Ford<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">Nothing is so simple it cannot be misunderstood. \u00a0<em>Albert Einstein<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">The easiest way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement. \u00a0<em>Rosenbaum&#8217;s Law<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">Anyone who says he isn&#8217;t going to resign four times, definitely will. \u00a0J.K. Galbraith<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">A shortcut is the longest distance between two points. \u00a0<em>Charles Issawi<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">When you cat\/baby has fallen asleep on you lap and looks utterly content and adorable you will suddenly have to go to the bathroom. \u00a0<em>Anon<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">When all else fails, read the instructions. \u00a0<em>Anon<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">It works better if you plug it in. \u00a0<em>Sattinger&#8217;s Law<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If you play with anything long enough it will break. 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