Subject: Problems (Page 11)

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

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

When the product is destined to fail, the delivery system will perform perfectly.

I love when problems have simple solutions: cold medicine… umbrellas… condoms… tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comedian, television writer/producer & radio host

Stuff tends to break when it is loaned or borrowed.

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is the same damn thing over and over.

(1892 – 1950) poet

Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems; everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

(1918 - 2002) American author

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.

(1857 – 1924) English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist

There is nothing wrong with the car except that it is on fire.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

However much a shower control may rotate, the degree of rotation required to change from ice-cold to scalding is never more than one millimeter.

(1957 – ) New Zealand writer

I don't look to jump over seven-foot bars: I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over.

(1930 – ) financier & investment businessman

To err is human; to purr, feline.

(1930 – ) American author and billiard player, teacher & commentator

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

(1943 – 1971) rock singer

Whoops: An exclamation that translates roughly into “get a sponge.”

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.

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

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

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