Half of our life is spent in getting competents to repair the botchwork of incompetents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The University of Hard Knocks] Reference

It was a marvellous bit of botchwork, and yet there was a certain meaning in the production, compiled solely from Homeric verses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

"Then," interrupted Hermon, "the worshipper should thank the sculptor; for is it not more profitable to him to be encouraged by the statue to emulate the human virtues whose successful embodiment it shows him than to strive for the aid of the botchwork of human hands, which possesses as much or as little power as the wood, gold, and ivory that compose it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

God's botchwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909] Reference

"All knowledge is botchwork.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference