Subject: Problems (Page 9)

Everything is in a state of utter dishevelment.

If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.

Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.

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

(1930 – ) financier & investment businessman

Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

The first shall be last and the last shall be first, but if you're in the middle, you're stuck there.

Never create a problem for which you do not have the answer.

Corollary: Create problems for which only you have the answer.

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

(1888 – 1960) Austrian writer

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

There is a solution to every problem; the only difficulty is finding it.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler – and less trouble.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

I don’t have a solution, but I admire the problem.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an automobile accident, you begin to worry about history.

(1953 – ) comedian & actor

Like most of those who study history, he [Napoleon III] learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

(1906 – 1990) British historian

You can always tell you're in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.

blogger (Standing Room Only)

There are coexisting elements in frustration phenomena which separate expected results from achieved results.

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)

This is a crisis, a large crisis. In fact… it’s a twelve-story crisis with a magnificent entrance hall, carpeted throughout; twenty-four hour porterage and an enormous sign on the roof saying ‘This is a Large Crisis.’

(1955 – ) English actor

If you're already in a hole, there's no use to continue digging.

If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.