Admonition Quote by Ambrose Bierce

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the…

— Ambrose Bierce

He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers…

— Samuel Johnson

However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in…

— Eric Hoffer

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that…

— John Ray

We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has…

— Carl Sagan

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

— Ruth Benedict

When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this…

— Thomas Reid

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social…

— Barbara Kruger

I didn't start acting until I was 27, and that was just through Gary Shandling and Ben Stiller who I knew through stand-up. And…

— Janeane Garofalo

Timing in my life has been fortuitous.

— Joe Buck

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

— Herbert Turnbull