Subject: Problems (Page 17)

That’s one of the remarkable things about life… it’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

If you scatter thorns, don’t go barefoot.

Assumption is the mother of all foul-ups.

If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right.

If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong, is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician

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

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it’s the light of the oncoming train.

Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

When you’ve made gravy under gunfire, you can do anything.

(1916 – 2000) English music hall performer, comedian & actor

If you're in a hole, stop digging.

When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

When you're in deep water it's a good idea to keep your mouth shut!

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

To the man who only has a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

(1908 – 1970) American professor of psychology

Everything put together sooner or later falls apart.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Anytime you wish to demonstrate something, the number of faults is proportional to the number of viewers.

Success doesn’t teach as many lessons as failure does.


Two wrongs are only the beginning.