Accident Quotes

Chapter of accidents.
~Edmund Burke

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
~Charles Dickens

To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?
~Goldsmith

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.
~Charles Kingsley

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.]
~Ephraim Gotthold Lessing

At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By many a happy accident.
~Thomas Middleton

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.
~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.
~William Shakespeare

Of moving accidents by flood and field.
~William Shakespeare

A happy accident.
~Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein)

The accident of an accident.
~Lord Edward Thurlow