Emily Maitlis Quotes

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

The best laid plans o’ mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley

I always like how a seemingly benign activity that was meant to be fun can turn into drama.

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

I'm more afraid of some stupid accident.

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

History is the unfolding of miscalculations

The only conflict that is worse than one that is intended is one that is unintended.

In true Slipknot fashion, nothing we plan works out the way we want it.

I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in...loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.