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Accidents Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them...
- Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully
- He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.
- There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it…
- There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are…
- Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
More Accidents Quotes
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- Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. — Henry Adams
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- Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. — Dave Barry
- No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian… — Joe Barton
- What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a… — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler
- The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it… — Kathryn Bigelow