Subject: Problems (Page 9)

Things always fall at right angles.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

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

Experiments should be reproducible… they should all fail in the same way.

No job is too small to botch.

It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

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.


Never go out to meet trouble; if you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

(1872 – 1933) 30th U.S. president

Any new activity will cause more trouble than you can possibly imagine.

When all else fails, follow instructions.

Coach: Hey Norm, how’s the world been treating you?

Norm: Like a baby treats a diaper.

George Wendt (1948 – ) American actor

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

(1883 – 1969) German architect & founder of the Bauhaus School

No matter what goes wrong, there’s always someone who will say he knew it would.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

(1891 – 1974) 14th U.S. Chief Justice & politician

Mechanics, not microbes, are the menace to civilization.

(1868 – 1952) British writer

A $300 picture tube will protect a 10¢ fuse by blowing first.

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

A child will not spill on a dirty floor.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

(1917 – 1963) 35th U.S. president

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.

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Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

(1918 – 1990) American aerospace engineer

If you pick up a chunk of broken concrete and try to pitch it into an adjacent lot, it will hit a tree limb and come down right on the driver’s side of your car windshield.