Subject: Problems (Page 9)

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)
Characteristics Failure Intelligence Mistakes People

If you can laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.

(1963 – ) television host & comedian
Accidents Alcohol Emotions Laughter

Like trying to poke a cat out from under a porch with a wet rope.

(1908 – 2003) American actor & dancer
Problems TV/Movie Quotes

As you grow older, you stand for more and fall for less.

Accidents Age Beliefs Old

If you fall and break your legs, don't come running to me.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Accidents Problems

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

Military Murphy’s Laws Problems

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
Failure Friends Old People Success

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most embarrassment will be the one to

Emotions Murphy’s Laws Problems

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" and I said, "No, I made a few mistakes."

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Mistakes Situations Sleep

There is a solution to every problem; the only difficulty is finding it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The shortest distance between two points is a downward spiral.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

Stuff tends to break when it is loaned or borrowed.

Accidents Problems Things

In larger things we are convivial – What causes trouble is the trivial.

(1906 – 1989) American poet & author
Life Problems

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

To beat the bureaucracy, make your problem their problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Murphy’s Law only fails when you try to demonstrate it.


Failure Murphy’s Laws

If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator
People Problems Self

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

All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Marriage Problems

The mistake you make is in trying to figure it out.

(1911 – 1983) playwright
Mistakes Problems

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

(1953 – ) American musician
Mistakes Problems