Subject: Problems (Page 22)

It's hard to describe what it's like to see a stock car flying through the air knowing it's going to land on top of you.

American auto racer
Accidents Auto racing Problems Sports

The new hardware will break down as soon as the old is disconnected and out.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations Things

If you break a cup or plate, it will not be the one that was already chipped or cracked.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

(1858 – 1932) American physicist, physician & humorist
Problems Situations

When things are going well, something will go wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

(1909 – 1995) American journalist
Failure Government Problems

For every problem science solves, it creates ten new one.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

(1926 – 2001) American science fiction writer
Problems

If you drop something, it will never reach the ground.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

Don't ever make the same mistake twice, unless it pays.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
Mistakes Problems

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

(1898 – 1981) actor, singer, songwriter & movie producer
Marriage Men Mistakes

If you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
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

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Beliefs Failure God Success

Asking dumb questions is easier than correcting dumb mistakes.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.

(1926 – 1993) American presidential staffer & Watergate co-conspirator
Problems Situations

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist
Emotions Life Problems Success

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

(1882 – 1942) American actor
America Places Problems

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

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Things always go from bad to worse.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

No experiment is ever a complete failure – it can always serve as a negative example.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems