From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:

Schopenhauer’s Law of Entropy: if you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel full of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel full of wine, you get sewage.

Goofy guy’s admiration of Schopenhauer’s Law of Entropy: This, of all the fifty years of the desk calendar Christmas gifts daily entry, is my oft repeated favorite.