Subject: Problems (Page 2)

The less you do, the less can go wrong.

A valuable dropped item will always fall into an inaccessible place (a diamond ring down the drain, for example) – or into the garbage disposal while it is running.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

(1903 – 1974) English intellectual, literary critic & writer

In this world there are winners and losers – and, of course, ‘the others’, who comprise the majority.

(1967 – ) English comedian

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

When all else fails, play dead.

(1945 – ) Canadian comedian & actor

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

Automatic: If something is automatic, that simple means that you can’t repair it yourself.

Accident: Any negligent or malicious behavior performed by someone with a clever lawyer.

British writer, cartoonist, poet & performer

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

(1930 – ) financier & investment businessman

I learned in my car that I could not have children; it was the day that I locked my keys in my car with the engine running.

(1964 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

I made a wrong mistake.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

There is always one more bug.

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.

All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Those who don’t study the past will repeat its errors; those who do study it will find OTHER ways to err.

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

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

(1858 – 1932) American physicist, physician & humorist

You don't get ulcers from what you eat; you get them from what's eating you.

(1888 – 1960) Austrian writer