Accidents Quote by Horace Walpole

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience,…

— Adrian Bejan

Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the…

— Horace Walpole

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

— Jeff Bezos

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

— Francis Bacon

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

— Plutarch

It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the…

— Rainbow Rowell

“The strong and strange thing—that which moves on its way as do birth and death, and the rising and setting of the sun—had begun…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that…

— William Shenstone

“Those who by valorous ways become princes...acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.”

— W.K. Marriott

“The wheel of Fortune turns one way and another, taking us to the heights or the depths. That is the great wheel on which…

— Ned Hayes

“The way of fortune, is like the Milken Way in the sky; which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars;…

— Francis Bacon