Subject: Problems (Page 10)

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.


Problems Situations

Whenever you decide to take the kids home, it is always five minutes earlier that they break into fights, tears, or hysteria.

Children Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

The most undesirable things are the most certain (death and taxes).

Death Murphy’s Laws Problems Taxes

The leak in the roof is never in the same location as the drip.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

General solutions to specific problems become specific problems requiring general solutions.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The first shall be last and the last shall be first, but if you're in the middle, you're stuck there.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

In this world there are only two tragedies: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Problems

New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist
Accidents New York City People Places Problems

I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one.

(1841 – 1918) publisher of the New York Herald
Mistakes Problems

Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is… well, an umpire.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire
Baseball Mistakes Problems Sports

I get up and a button falls off… I pick up my briefcase and the handle falls off; I'm afraid to go to the bathroom.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor
People Problems Self

When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer
Alcohol Food/Drink Life Problems

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist
Mistakes Problems

Automatic: If something is automatic, that simple means that you can’t repair it yourself.

Definitions Murphy’s Laws Problems

When you move something to a more logical place, you only can remember where it used to be and your decision to move it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

There are coexisting elements in frustration phenomena which separate expected results from achieved results.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

To err is human – to blame it on someone else is even more human.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

Any system or program, however complicated, if looked at in exactly the right way, will become even more complicated.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

A paint drip will always find the hole in the newspaper and land on the carpet underneath (and will not be discovered until it has dried).

Accidents Murphy’s Laws

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

(1953 – ) American musician
Mistakes Problems

Nobody notices the big errors.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems