Mark Twain Quotes About Accidents

• Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Smart

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.210, Courier Corporation

• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Vapor, Reputation

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.116, Courier Corporation

• I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.

  Mark Twain

  Eye, Simple, Men

  Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.90, University of Iowa Press

• There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

  Mark Twain

  Waiting, Purpose, Strange

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.189, Univ of California Press

• There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life—life's "experiences"—are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

  Mark Twain

  Experience, Wish, Way

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.181, 谷月社

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