Famous quotes containing the words accident and/or prone:
“A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a wind-mill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment,—and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)