Subject: Problems (Page 24)

Aren’t I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

A falling nozzle will turn toward you and land on its trigger.

If only one solution can be found for a field problem, then it is usually a stupid solution.

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

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

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

In life your dreams may not come true, but sooner or later one of your nightmares will.

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

Accident: A thing that is caused by people, but often causes people.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road; they get run over.

(1897 – 1960) Welsh labor leader & politician

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

George Wendt (1948 – ) American actor

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

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

How come dumb stuff seems so smart while you're doing it?

cartoon character, created by Hank Ketcham (1920 – 2001)

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity… another man’s, I mean.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Things always go from bad to worse.

Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.

There are only two problems with people: One is that they don't think; The other is that they do.

Dear Randolph, utterly unspoilt by failure.

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

Everything put together sooner or later falls apart.

God don't make no mistakes… that's how He got to be God.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

The worst part is that I don’t even have the fun of doing the things I’m getting blamed for.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

(1930 – ) financier & investment businessman