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Everything is in a state of utter dishevelment.
Wallace's Observation
Life
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.
Murphy's Law of Government
Government
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Bureaucracy
Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.
Horner's Five Thumb Postulate
Accidents
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Equipment
Experience
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett
(1930 – ) financier & investment businessman
Characteristics
Problems
Trouble
Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.
Anonymous
Definitions
Mistakes
Experience
When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.
Lynch's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Situations
The first shall be last and the last shall be first, but if you're in the middle, you're stuck there.
Newman's Observation
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Situations
Never create a problem for which you do not have the answer.
Corollary: Create problems for which only you have the answer.
Burke’s Rule
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Answers
You don't get ulcers from what you eat; you get them from what's eating you.
Vicki Baum
(1888 – 1960) Austrian writer
Eating
Food/Drink
Health
Problems
Ulcers
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
Groucho Marx
(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Age
Emotions
Failure
Friends
Sasdness
There is a solution to every problem; the only difficulty is finding it.
Evvie Nef's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Solutions
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler – and less trouble.
Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Characteristics
Problems
Situations
Good
Noble
Teaching
I don’t have a solution, but I admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant
(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist
Problems
Solutions
After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an automobile accident, you begin to worry about history.
Tim Allen
(1953 – ) comedian & actor
Accidents
Autos
History
Eyewitness Accounts
Like most of those who study history, he [Napoleon III] learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A.J.P. Taylor
(1906 – 1990) British historian
Mistakes
Problems
Napoleon
You can always tell you're in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.
Hugh Elliott
blogger (Standing Room Only)
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Situations
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Prosthetics
Trouble
There are coexisting elements in frustration phenomena which separate expected results from achieved results.
Riddle's Constant
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Expectations
Frustration
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
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.’
Rowan Atkinson
(1955 – ) English actor
Problems
TV/Movie Quotes
As Blackadder in “Blackadder”
If you're already in a hole, there's no use to continue digging.
Walters's Law of Management
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
Murphy's Fifth Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
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