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diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy b/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy index d044409..949d944 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/murphy @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ A drug is that substance which, when injected into a rat, will produce a scientific report. % A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. + -- Klipstein % A fool and his money are invited places. % @@ -155,9 +156,6 @@ her opposition. A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. % -A memorandum is written not to inform the reader -but to protect the writer. -% A pat on the back is only a few inches from a kick in the pants. % @@ -315,9 +313,6 @@ never be followed by a crowd. Anything good in life either causes cancer in laboratory mice or is taxed beyond reality. % -Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or -fattening. -% Anything hit with a big enough hammer will fall apart. % Anything is possible, but nothing is easy. @@ -353,8 +348,6 @@ if it succeeds. Automotive engine repairing law: If you drop something, it will never reach the ground. % -Avoid reality at all costs. -% Bad law is more likely to be supplemented than repealed. % Bad news drives good news out of the media. @@ -566,8 +559,6 @@ embarrassment of estimating the corresponding costs. % Go where the money is. % -Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at. -% He who dies with the most toys wins. % He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from @@ -768,6 +759,7 @@ occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons. If things were left to chance, they'd be better. % If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. + -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter % If we learn by our mistakes, I'm getting one hell of an education!! @@ -1030,6 +1022,7 @@ It works better if you plug it in. It's always darkest before ... daylight saving time. % It's always darkest just before the lights go out. + -- Alex Clark % It's always easier to go down hill, but the view is from the top. @@ -1059,8 +1052,6 @@ cater to your favorite neurosis. % King Arthur ran the first knight club. % -Last guys don't finish nice. -% Laugh and the world laughs with you. cry and ... you have to blow your nose. % @@ -1103,8 +1094,6 @@ Mass man must be serviced by mass means. Misery no longer loves company nowadays it insists on it. % -Most people deserve each other. -% Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. % @@ -1144,6 +1133,7 @@ Never get excited about a blind date because of how it sounds over the phone. % Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. + -- Erma Bombeck % Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. @@ -1180,6 +1170,7 @@ No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example. % No good deed goes unpunished. + -- Clare Boothe Luce % No major project is ever installed on time, within budgets, with the same staff that started it. Yours will not be the @@ -1505,9 +1496,6 @@ is in print. % Some of it plus the rest of it is all of it. % -Some people manage by the book, even though they -don't know who wrote the book or even what book. -% Souffles rise and cream whips only for the family and for guests you didn't really want to invite anyway. % @@ -1564,6 +1552,7 @@ proportional to the number of other people who are in a position to do it instead. % The chief cause of problems is solutions. + -- Eric Sevareid % The client who pays the least complains the most % @@ -1650,8 +1639,6 @@ The higher the level of prestige accorded the people behind the plan, the least less chance there is of abandoning it. % -The idea is to die young as late as possible. -% The inside contact that you have developed at great expense is the first person to be let go in any reorganization. @@ -1994,8 +1981,6 @@ not symbolically. Usefulness is inversely proportional to its reputation for being useful. % -Virtue is its own punishment. -% Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them. @@ -2041,8 +2026,6 @@ When all else fails, read the instructions. When an exaggerated emphasis is placed upon delegation, responsibility, like sediment, sinks to the bottom. % -When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. -% When in doubt, don't mumble, overexpose ... then mumble. % When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate. @@ -2081,6 +2064,7 @@ When somebody drops something, everybody will kick it around instead of picking it up. % When the going gets tough, everyone leaves. + -- Lynch % When the government bureau's remedies do not match your problem, you modify the problem, not the remedy. @@ -2181,8 +2165,7 @@ You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back, you've really got something. % You can never do just one thing. -% -You can observe a lot just by watching. + -- Hardin % You can pray hard enough to make water run uphill how hard? |