Quotes
Quotes about Accident
Her father loved me; oft invited me;
Still question'd me the story of my life,
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
That I have passed.
I ran it through, even from my boyish days,
To the very moment that he bade me tell it:
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field,
Of hair-breadth'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,
Of being taken by the insolent foe
And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence
And portance in my travels' history;
Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,
Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven,
It was my hint to speak,--such was the process;
And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads
Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear
Would Desdemona seriously incline.
By many a happy accident.
Chapter of accidents.
To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?
The accident of an accident.
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?"
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.
I think it a very happy accident.
There are two good reasons for writing much, if one can. The first is the need to earn; the second is the fear of an untimely death, which will prevent the half-formed books in one's mind from being realized. We know not the day nor the hour. I may be killed in a train accident when taking this present book to my publisher in London. You can see whether or not this happened by reading the blurb on the dust jacket
Dear God, Did you mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident?
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Chapter of accidents.
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?
Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.
Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall--am wenigsten das wovon die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet.]
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.
By many a happy accident.
What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breadth. [Was der Ameise Vernunft muhsam, zu Haufen schleppt, jagt in einem Hui der Wind des Zufalls zusammen.
Of moving accidents by flood and field.
The accident of an accident.
The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.
