bungler quotes

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing theagonies of the damned, but give hima littlemetal, a fewchemicals,somewireand twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

- Russell Wayne Baker
  Editoral pages, the NewYork Times, 21  Jul.

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

- George Bernard Shaw
  The Devil to DonJuan. Man and Superman, act 3.