Accident
Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.
A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.
A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
Unusual appearance or effect.
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Accident Quotations
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Mahatma Gandhi
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Plato
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison
Never insult anyone by accident.
Robert A. Heinlein
It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Robert Baden-Powell
Accident Translations
accident in Afrikaans is ongeluk
accident in Dutch is ongeluk, accident, ongeval
accident in Finnish is tapaturma
accident in French is accident
accident in Hungarian is baleset
accident in Italian is incidente, accidente
accident in Latin is casus, casus
accident in Norwegian is ulykke
accident in Portuguese is acidente
accident in Spanish is desgracia, accidente
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