Success and Failure
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tiny.ag/5edntuvq · ★★☆☆ Fair (32 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I can be of any help, you're in worse trouble than I thought.
tiny.ag/fsy6lb1v · ★★☆☆ Fair (35 ratings) · submitted 1997
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
tiny.ag/stfdm53a · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
tiny.ag/aqhc8mvh · ★★☆☆ Fair (1060 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
tiny.ag/puraglae · ★★☆☆ Fair (108 ratings) · submitted 1997
If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50-50 it will.
tiny.ag/bpgwmk3n · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
tiny.ag/hsipkpnw · ★★☆☆ Fair (160 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
tiny.ag/vhuaqm1e · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you do what you've always done, you'll be what you've always been.
tiny.ag/t2ay3kb5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (67 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you see a turtle on a fence post, he has had some help.
tiny.ag/ohvcxj98 · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imbesi's Law with Freeman's Extension: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty; but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.
tiny.ag/u1iblda0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.
tiny.ag/d4uzlrvm · ★★☆☆ Fair (280 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.
tiny.ag/uc5f23qi · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
tiny.ag/xqe7yfma · ★★☆☆ Fair (152 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
tiny.ag/2wniecpg · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as high as the eagle?
tiny.ag/pe3wjdh9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · submitted 1997
Jenkinson's Law: It won't work.
tiny.ag/xnqzybth · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Johnson's First Law: When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time.
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