Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.
The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.
It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise.
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