Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it. Frederick Soddy
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. E. M. Forster
Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny. Cesare Pavese
Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper. Ann Brashares
Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up. Deb Caletti
A traveller does not make a mess where he had made a camp as he might one day come back. Swahili Proverb