Subject: Problems » Accidents

I spilled spot remover on my dog… he’s gone now.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

It's hard to describe what it's like to see a stock car flying through the air knowing it's going to land on top of you.

American auto racer

A cigarette placed in an ashtray will go out if you stay in the room; if you leave the room, the cigarette will topple to the table, burn through, and drop to the floor, where it will smolder until it descends to ignite the drapes in the room below.

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

(1963 – ) television host & comedian

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

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

A child will not spill on a dirty floor.

The bag that breaks is the one with the eggs.

If men have a smell it's usually an accident.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

I think the homeless have it pretty good because 98% of deadly accidents happen inside the home.

(1982 – ) American stand-up comedian

New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

A flying particle will seek the nearest eye.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road; they get run over.

(1897 – 1960) Welsh labor leader & politician

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

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an automobile accident, you begin to worry about history.

(1953 – ) comedian & actor

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

Bare feet magnetize sharp metal objects so they always point upwards from the floor… especially in the dark.

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

actor, writer & editor

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Anything dropped in the bathroom will fall in the toilet.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

If most auto accidents happen within five miles of home, why don’t we move ten miles away?

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