“Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.”
“Anything that can possibly go wrong, does”
“... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does, which has been through all that.”
“Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”
“Anything can happen to anyone, but it usually doesn't. Except when it does.”
“The house is a place where things can go wrong.”