Subject: Problems (Page 7)

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

(1916 – 2000) English music hall performer, comedian & actor
Problems TV/Movie Quotes

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist
Emotions Life Problems Success

Make it sufficiently difficult for people to do something, and most people will stop doing it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

(1917 – 1963) 35th U.S. president
Characteristics Communication Problems

Washing machines only break down during the wash cycle.
Corollary: All breakdowns occur on the plumber's day off.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

Asking dumb questions is easier than correcting dumb mistakes.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws

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

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws

If you're in a hole, stop digging.

Problems Situations

Any technical problem can be overcome given enough time and money.

Lerman's Corollary: You are never given enough time or money.

Money Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Failure

The most delicate component will be dropped.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Things

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

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

If you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
Problems

I'm sitting on top of the world, and I've got hemorrhoids.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor
Places Problems Success World

If your project doesn't work, look for the part you didn't think was important.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Success

1. If it is green or it wiggles – it is Biology.
2. If it stinks – it is Chemistry.
3. If it doesn’t work – it is Physics.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Science/Weather

Tolerances will accumulate unidirectionally toward maximum difficulty of assembly.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.

(1860 – 1904) Russian short-story writer, playwright & physician
Problems

If several things that could have gone wrong have not gone wrong, it would have been ultimately beneficial for them to have gone wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems