Subject: Problems

Experience is what makes you pause briefly before going ahead and making the same mistake.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine
Mistakes Problems Situations Time

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

(1943 – 1971) rock singer
Life Mistakes

Reality continues to ruin my life.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)
Failure Life Problems

It will always break just when you need it the most.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

To beat the bureaucracy, make your problem their problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

If the assumptions are wrong, the conclusions aren't likely to be very good.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Any bus that can be the wrong bus will be the wrong bus. All others are out of service or full.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The less you do, the less can go wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

(1867 – 1959) architect, interior designer, writer & educator
Doctors Health Mistakes

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Intelligence Problems Understanding

Dear Randolph, utterly unspoilt by failure.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
Failure Insults

The number one thing about trouble is… don't get into more.

American professional golfer
Golf Problems Sports

If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Success

A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection.

Failure Murphy’s Laws

Trouble strikes in series of threes, but when working around the house the next job after a series of three is not the fourth job – it's the start of a brand new series of three.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Work

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling, and golf. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with golf.

Golf Problems Sports

Every solution breeds new problems.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

If money can fix it, it's not a problem.

(1937 – 2014) American co-host of radio show “Car Talk”
Problems