Since Madonna is positioned as always "cooler than thou", we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.
Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.
Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.
All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.
He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.
When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.
What you feel is wrong or missing in your relationships is an indication that something is amiss within you.