Bob Ross (1942–1995) American painter, art instructor, and television host
Bob Ross: Beauty Is Everywhere. Collection 1: Ep. 8 "Wintertime Blues"; The Joy of Painting Season 20: Episode 3 Bob Ross: Winter in Pastel.
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Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) English playwright and poet
No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's (1611), Act ii. Sc. 2. Compare: "A happy accident", Madame de Staël, L'Allemagne, chap. xvi. Cervantes, Don Quixote, book iv. part ii. chap. lvii.
“I think it a very happy accident.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 58.
“Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me
Source: The Best of Me
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
Variant: No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
Mary Wollstonecraft book A Vindication of the Rights of Men
A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”
Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline
Source: The Lords of Discipline
“To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?”
Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 19.
“To find accidently a handwritten letter of some old friend in a trunk. Ah, is this not happiness?”
Jin Shengtan (1610–1661) Chinese writer
"Thirty-three Happy Moments"
