Accidents Quote by H. L. Mencken

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

— Anonymous

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going…

— John Ruskin

Joy is in the ears that hear.

— Stephen R. Donaldson

man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed…

— Arthur Koestler

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

— Hesiod

“Joy is in the ears that hear, not in the mouth that speaks. The world has few stories glad in themselves, and we must…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Whatever a man knows, whatever is not mere rumbling and roaring that he has heard, can be said in three words.”

— Ferdinand Kürnberger

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!

— William Shakespeare

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

— Luigi Pirandello