Only the event teaches fools. [ Liv ]
For every event is a judgment of God. [ Schiller ]
Even the fool is wise after the event. [ Homer ]
By time and counsel do the best we can:
The event is never in the power of man. [ Herrick ]
The event has verified these predictions. [ Cicero ]
O Thou, whose certain eye foresees
The fixed event of fate's remote decrees. [ Homer ]
Without an helm or pilot her to sway;
Full sad and dreadful is that ship's event,
So is the man that wants intendiment. [ Spenser ]
Intend honestly and leave the event to God. [ Aesop ]
No historic event is so important as the advent of a conviction of a now truth. [ James Freeman Clarke ]
Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable. [ Menander ]
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. [ Johnson ]
Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; so ready are we to judge from the event. [ Euripides ]
Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. [ Krishna ]
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Give me the character and I will forecast the event. Character, it has in substance been said, is victory organized.
[ Bovee ]
When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion. [ Joubert ]
Learn the lesson of your own pain - learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul - in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love. [ Mrs. Humphry Ward ]
Man reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven. [ Humboldt ]
It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. [ Adam Clarke ]
A miracle is a supernatural event, whose antecedent forces are beyond our finite vision, whose design is the display of almighty power for the accomplishment of almighty purposes, and whose immediate result, as regards man, is his recognition of God as the Supreme Ruler of all things, and of His will as the only supreme law. [ A. E. Kittredge ]