ACCIDENT

Related Subjects: Calamity, Chance, Death, Fate, Luck, Possibility, Probability

1. What men call accident is God's own part.—Gamaliel Bailey

2. For things said false and never meant, Do oft prove true by accident.—Samuel Butler, Satire

3. Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.—Dickens, David Copperfield

4. Our wanton accidents take root, and grow
   To vaunt themselves God's laws.—Charles Kingsley, The Saint's Tragedy

5. Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.—La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

6. There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skillful men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt.—La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

7. Nothing under the sun is accidental.—Lessing, Emilia Galotti

8. Nothing with God can be accidental.—Longfellow, The Golden Legend

9. The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"—fate.—Macaulay

10. By many a happy accident.—Thomas Middleton, No Wit Like a Woman's

11. There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.—Napoleon

12. Promptly improve your accidents.—Napoleon         

13. There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.—Proverb

14. What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breath.—Schiller, Fiesco