Subject: Problems » Accidents

The most delicate component will be dropped.

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

The worst thing about accidents in the kitchen is that you usually have to eat them.


If you can laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.

(1963 – ) television host & comedian

As you grow older, you stand for more and fall for less.

Accident: When presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Some guy hit my fender and I said "be fruitful and multiply" but not in those words.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Anything dropped in the bathroom falls in the toilet.

Accident: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it’s the light of the oncoming train.

When the water reaches the upper deck, follow the rats.

If you break a cup or plate, it will not be the one that was already chipped or cracked.

A paint drip will always find the hole in the newspaper and land on the carpet underneath (and will not be discovered until it has dried).

Stuff tends to break when it is loaned or borrowed.

The bag that breaks is the one with the eggs.

If you fall and break your legs, don't come running to me.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

actor, writer & editor

You can always hit what you don't aim at.

A child will not spill on a dirty floor.

One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette.

They're funny things, accidents; you never have them till you're having them.

fictional character from the book series by A. A. Milne