Quotes About Misadventure

#1. Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don't enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded.

Alison Lurie

#2. Misadventure asked what the harm was partaking in one more and I decided not to argue with her.

S.A. Tawks

#3. The Times, whose editorial portentousness approached traumatic constipation, tried to suppress its glee under the bushel basket of feigned sadness that another civil servant had been caught in a sexual misadventure; they hadn't even bothered to use the word "alleged.

John Sandford

#4. Where's your sense of misadventure?

S.A. Tawks

#5. A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.

Anthony Kiedis

#6. Misadventure was my primary compass and I followed it without caring if I pissed off one person or a whole bunch of people.

S.A. Tawks

#7. The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to get out of Iraq safely. Let's bring our troops home.

John Conyers

#8. It all jibed, and the books would close on Jasper as death by misadventure. Unofficially, Eve labeled it death by stupidity, but there wasn't a place on the sheet for that particular observation. - Lt. Eve Dallas on a drunk fall off the roof

J.D. Robb

#9. Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure..

Amos Bronson Alcott

#10. D'Artagnan ran home immediately, and although it was three o'clock in the morning and he had some of the worst quarters of Paris to traverse, he met with no misadventure. Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting deity.

Alexandre Dumas

#11. Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.

Samuel Smiles

#12. Everyday something unexpected happened. Everyday was exciting. Everyday was a misadventure.

S.A. Tawks

#13. Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.

Sigmund Freud

#14. You make the Titanic look like a tiny little misadventure.

Gina Ranalli

#15. fatal vehicular misadventure.

Thomas Ligotti

#16. Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush of longing detaches from its object of desire, and my photographic ghosts lead me back to myself, alone.

Justine Kurland

#17. Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Fred Allen

#18. A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion.

S.A. Tawks

#19. Harry and I are misadventurous misadventurers that like to partake in misadventure.

S.A. Tawks

#20. Misadventure will always cause someone to be pissed off at you, because they don't know what degree you're willing to go to to satisfy your need for misadventure.

S.A. Tawks

#21. But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect? ... aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?

Libba Bray

#22. My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges.

S.A. Tawks

#23. Death by misadventure sounds like a hopeful possibility.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson

Jennifer A. Girardin

#24. Make every misadventure an adventure.

Alana Siegel

#25. It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

S.A. Tawks

#26. Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

Emile M. Cioran

#27. In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror.

Martin Rees

#28. It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of somebody else's thorns in addition to his own.

Charles Dickens

#29. The best experiences can't be forced and they come when you least expect it. You don't find misadventure, it finds you.

S.A. Tawks

#30. She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.
For she is his poet,
And he is her poetry.

Lang Leav