Subject: Problems (Page 11)

A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection.

Never say “oops” while your patient is conscious.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part you didn't think was important.

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

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

Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a bigger can.

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

Nobody notices the big errors.

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


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

Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.

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

Status Quo: Latin for “the mess we’re in.”

Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

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

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

(1903 – 1992) country music singer, fiddler & promoter

No matter how careful one is in resealing the inner liner in a cereal box, it will tear where it is glued to the box.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

(1918 – 1990) American aerospace engineer

Everything put together sooner or later falls apart.

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

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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist