Mishandling Quotes

Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.

You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?