Subject: Problems (Page 13)

1. Nothing minor ever happens to a car on the weekend. 2. Nothing minor ever happens to a car on a trip. 3. Nothing minor ever happens to a car.

A component’s degree of reliability is directly proportional to its ease of accessibility (i.e., the harder it is to get to, the more often it breaks down).

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress

For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Envelopes and stamps which don't stick when you lick them will stick to other things when you don't want them to.

Anything dropped in the bathroom falls in the toilet.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.


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

The last person who quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong – until the next person quits or is fired.

[My husband] and I are always fighting; when we get up in the morning, we don't kiss; we touch gloves.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Assumption is the mother of all foul-ups.

It is better to have a horrible ending than to have horrors without end.

It’s a dog-eat-dog world, Sammy, and I’m wearing Milk-Bone underwear.

George Wendt (1948 – ) American actor

Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.

(1961 – ) English comedian, actor, director, producer & writer

Avoid any action with an unacceptable outcome.

Any attempt to print Murphy's laws will jam the printer.

When taking something apart to fix a minor malfunction, you will cause a major malfunction.

I don’t have a solution, but I admire the problem.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

No job is too small to botch.

Everything is in a state of utter dishevelment.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents’ shortcomings.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer