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Quotes About Mishap

I'm a basket case. Yeah, you know, I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.
~ Scott Adsit
I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig.
~ Tia Carrere
A fool will always find banana skins
~ Robert Priest
series of misadventures
~ Robert Vaughan
How did I get into this mess? Miles isn't even here. -Ivan
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
~ Ambrose Bierce
You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy.
~ Joe Valachi
His first job was to find some rich lady's pedigree Siamese cat. He managed to run it over on the way to see her. The second job was a divorce case – which you may think is run-of-the-mill until I tell you that the clients were perfectly happily married until he came along… There hadn't been a third case.
~ Anthony Horowitz
One moment of incompetence can be fatal.
~ Frank Herbert
My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!
~ Derek Jacobi
When I first started wearing wigs, I didn't know you had to anchor them down with bobby pins. I walked out during a windy day and my wig blew off and got stuck to a branch. I was walking while my wig was hanging! If that's not the most embarrassing thing... but you have to use bobby pins.
~ Sherri Shepherd
Oh, my God," she said, looking at Jack's face. "It's much worse than it looks," he told her. "What in the world happened?" "I got too close to the rear end of a mule.
~ Robyn Carr
My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
A ship carrying red paint collided with another one carrying purple paint. Both crews are thought to be marooned.
~ Ronnie Barker
The typical accident involves seven consecutive human errors. One
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Un típico accidente comprende siete errores humanos consecutivos.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
shoelace caught in an escalator.
~ Andy Griffiths
You punched him by accident.
~ Sarah Dessen
Maybe she said. I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring
~ Sarah Dessen
The army, under Rosecrans' administration, looks better than it ever did before. He certainly enters into his work with his whole soul, and unless some unlucky mishap knocks his feet from under him, he will soon be recognized as the first general of the Union.
~ John Beatty
It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.
~ Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe
The one time I'd ever babysat, the kid ran into a glass door and got a concussion.
~ Shane Dawson
Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
~ Zach Anner
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
~ Elizabeth I