'Tis But A Scratch

Never insult anyone by accident. - Robert A. Heinlein

Scratch a lover, and find a foe. - Dorothy Parker

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. - Ogden Nash

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. - Mark Twain

Substance is not enough, accident is also required. - Greek Proverb

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. - John F Kennedy

Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. - Cyrus A. Bartol

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism. - Hector Bianciotti

Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional. - Amy Grant

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. - Ambrose Bierce

If you scratch a cynic, you'll find a disappointed idealist. - George Carlin

The shortest distance between two points is usually under repair. - Unknown

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. - Pat Conroy

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. - Natalie Goldberg

Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I aimed at the public's heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach. - Upton Sinclair

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. - Charles Dickens

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. - Mark Twain

This is the machine age. The only thing people do by hand is scratch themselves. - Joe Laurie

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

To be born free is an accident; to live free a responsibility; to die free is an obligation. - Mrs. Hubbard Davis

It's easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult. Choose your words wisely. - Unknown

The dent in his car is hardly cold and he's coming over here to claim his pound of fish. - Archie Bunker

If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room. - David Lehman

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. - Aristotle

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. - Charles Lamb

My husband is so good at home repairs that they have a special VIP area for him in the emergency room. - Unknown

Faith is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see -
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency. - Emily Dickinson

The average auto owner drives so blamed reckless I'm glad that he does git robbed when he pays a repair bill. - Kin Hubbard

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. - Joe Ryan

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you. - Lillian Hellman

I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake? - Dylan Moran

I'm amazed that my wife and I created two human beings from scratch, yet struggle to assemble the most basic of IKEA cabinets. - John Kinnear

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. - Judith Viorst

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

If the "black box" flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff? - George Carlin

I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. - Mel Gibson

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. - Pele