the unexpected always happens
- the unexpected always happens
Similar to NOTHING is certain but the unforeseen. Cf. PLAUTUS Mostellaria I. iii. 197 insperata accidunt magi’ saepe quam quae speres, unexpected things happen more often than those you hope for.
1885 E. J. HARDY How to be Happy though Married xxv. A woman may have much theoretical knowledge, but this will not prevent unlooked-for obstacles from arising... It is the unexpected that constantly happens.
1909 Times Weekly 12 Nov. 732 No place in the world is more familiar than the House of Commons with ‘the unforeseen that always happens’.
1938 E. WAUGH Scoop I. iii. Have nothing which in a case of emergency you cannot carry in your own hands. But remember that the unexpected always happens.
1977 L. J. PETER Peter’s Quotations 296 Peter’s Law—The unexpected always happens.
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