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Problems
(Page 17)
That’s one of the remarkable things about life… it’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
Bill Watterson
(1955 – ) cartoonist
(Calvin and Hobbes)
Life
Problems
From Calvin & Hobbes
If you scatter thorns, don’t go barefoot.
Italian proverb
Problems
Proverbs
Assumption is the mother of all foul-ups.
Tylk's Law
Mistakes
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
(also Wethern’s Law)
Assumption
If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right.
Leahy's Law
Mistakes
Murphy’s Laws
Wrong
If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
Success
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.
Douglas Adams
(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician
Failure
Problems
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.
Calvin Coolidge
(1872 – 1933) 30th U.S. president
Problems
Trouble
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it’s the light of the oncoming train.
Lowell's Law
Accidents
Murphy’s Laws
Light
Train
Tunnel
Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.
‘Yogi' Berra
(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Mistakes
Yogi-isms
Head
Mental Errors
When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
Hindu proverb
Problems
When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.
Lynch's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Situations
When you’ve made gravy under gunfire, you can do anything.
Bill Waddington
(1916 – 2000) English music hall performer, comedian & actor
Problems
TV/Movie Quotes
As Percy Sugen in “Coronation Street”
Capabilities
If you're in a hole, stop digging.
Proverb
Problems
Situations
When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.
W.C. Fields
(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer
Alcohol
Food/Drink
Life
Problems
When you're in deep water it's a good idea to keep your mouth shut!
Alfred E. Neuman
fictional mascot and cover boy of
Mad
, an American humor magazine
Problems
Situations
To the man who only has a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
Abraham Maslow
(1908 – 1970) American professor of psychology
Problems
Hammers
Nails
Everything put together sooner or later falls apart.
Simon's Law of Destiny
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Things
Breakage
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Age
Problems
Young
Wrong
Anytime you wish to demonstrate something, the number of faults is proportional to the number of viewers.
Bye's First Law of Model Railroading
Murphy’s Laws
People
Problems
Demonstrations
Success doesn’t teach as many lessons as failure does.
Jay Samit
Failure
Success
Two wrongs are only the beginning.
Kohn's Corollary to Murphy's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
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