Subject: Problems (Page 15)

Experience: What causes a person to make new mistakes instead of the same old ones.

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

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

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

Given any problem containing N equations, there will be N+1 unknowns.

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

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in direct proportion to the size of the error.

If you think you're wrong, you're wrong

Corollary: If you think you're wrong, you're right.

Avoid any action with an unacceptable outcome.

It is better to have a horrible ending than to have horrors without end.

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

The toughest call an umpire has to make is not the half-swing; the toughest call is throwing a guy out of the game after you blew the hell out of the play.

American baseball umpire

Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

If men have a smell it's usually an accident.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

You never run out of things that can go wrong.

It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

The bag that breaks is the one with the eggs.

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

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist