Subject: Problems (Page 2)

Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Mistakes Yogi-isms

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Some guy hit my fender and I said "be fruitful and multiply" but not in those words.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Accidents Autos Things

I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.

(1882 – 1941) English novelist, essayist, publisher & feminist
Accidents Age Death Friends People

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Marriage Problems Sex World

It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter
Failure Success

Anything dropped in the bathroom falls in the toilet.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Age Problems Young

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

(1947 – ) radio broadcaster & host
Intelligence Problems Stupidity

In this world there are only two tragedies: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Problems

Don't ever make the same mistake twice, unless it pays.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
Mistakes Problems

Yesterday I accidentally hit a little kid with my car; it wasn’t serious – nobody saw me.

(1978 – ) American writer & stand-up comedian
Accidents Problems

When my wife drives, there’s always trouble. The other day she took the car. She came home. She told me, “There’s water in the carburetor.” I asked her, “Where’s the car?” She said, “In a lake.”

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor
Autos Problems Things

To err is human to forgive, infrequent.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist
Characteristics Failure Mistakes Problems

Trying is the first step towards failure.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)
Failure Problems Situations

If on an actuarial basis there is a 50-50 chance that something will go wrong, it will actually go wrong nine times out of ten.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

When taking something apart to fix a minor malfunction, you will cause a major malfunction.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Accident: When presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Accidents Definitions Problems

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

(1883 – 1969) German architect & founder of the Bauhaus School
Mistakes People Problems

God don't make no mistakes… that's how He got to be God.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Beliefs God Mistakes

Multitasking means screwing up several things at once.

Mistakes Problems