The fated will happen. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
Dreams are rudiments
Of the great state to come.
We dream what is
About to happen. [ Bailey ]
There shall no evil happen to the just. [ Bible ]
Cowardice, the dread of what will happen. [ Epictetus ]
The fated must happen; the feared must draw near. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
None knows what will happen to him before sunset. [ Proverb ]
An apple may happen to be better given than eaten. [ Proverb ]
From what has happened we may infer what may happen.
A thing that may not happen in a year may happen in two minutes. [ Spanish Proverb ]
That may happen in a moment which may not occur again in a hundred years. [ Italian Proverb ]
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man. [ Ben Jonson ]
There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen. [ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ]
After all, our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. [ Balzac ]
If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. [ Lowell ]
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. [ H. W. Shaw ]
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one; a great deal may arouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure. [ Lord Greville ]
A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with everything that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best. [ C. C. Colton ]
Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials: when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things. [ Shenstone ]
Chance is a term we apply to events to denote that they happen without any necessary or foreknown cause. When we say a thing happens by chance, we mean no more than that its cause is unknown to us, and not, as some vainly imagine, that chance itself can be the cause of anything. [ C. Buck ]
Occur or Transpire? The misuse of these words is very common. Occur means simply to take place, to happen; transpire to leak out, to come to light. Hence, it is incorrect to say, The annual school exhibition transpired last week.
The proper word here is occurred. But transpire is correctly used in such a sentence as, The proceedings of the caucus have not yet transpired
. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]