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When in trouble do what you can. If that fails try what you can't. If that fails give yourself an A for effort and run like hell with pride!

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about problems, proudness, hell, contentment

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war, prison, contentment, man

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Quote by James Lane Allen about man

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.

Quote by Maria Callas about music, heart

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic...

Quote by Hans Eysenck about end, failure

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about culture, marriage, sex

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about honesty, wealth, courage, power

When all else fails, have hope.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, hope

Where patience fails, force prevails.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about patience, force, police

When all else fails, read the instructions.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology

Everything always works in your HQ, everything always fails in the Colonel's HQ.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war

Everything always works in your home, everything always fails on location.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography, home

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Quote by Theodore Parker about judgment

Life is pretty simple: you do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Quote by Leonardo da Vinci about life, contentment

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Quote by Erich Fromm about activity, love