Subject: Problems (Page 16)

To err is human; to purr, feline.

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

Any attempt to print Murphy's laws will jam the printer.

A malfunctioning car will stop displaying symptoms of imminent breakdown when driven to within one-quarter mile of a garage.

If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

The only problem with having nothing to do is you can't stop and rest.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

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

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

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

Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

(1882 – 1942) American actor

Some mistakes are too fun to make only once.

If you drop something, it will never reach the ground.

Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

(1918 – 1990) American aerospace engineer

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

(1939 – ) comedian, actress, writer & producer

You never run out of things that can go wrong.

She had an unequaled gift of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

(1843 – 1916) American-born writer

I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

(1924 – ) 39th U.S. president & humanitarian

An unexpectedly easy-to-handle sequence of events will be immediately followed by an equally long sequence of trouble.

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an automobile accident, you begin to worry about history.

(1953 – ) comedian & actor

Office machines that function perfectly during normal business hours will break down when you return at night to use them for personal business.

When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time.

Any tool dropped while repairing an automobile will roll under the car to the vehicle's exact geographic center.