It is strange how a memory will grow into a wax figure, how the cherub grows suspiciously prettier as its frame darkens with age-strange, strange are the mishaps of memory.
A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved.
Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps.
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.
The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.
That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.
I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because of many mishaps, I also avoided flying on ValuJet).
It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise.
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.