Quotes About Vagary

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

A person can get slightly ahead for entirely random reasons;

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.

vagary, n. The mistake is in thinking there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

fortune was a fickle mistress.