Quotes About Chance

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.

Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.

Isn't it odd how the little things can change a man's entire life?

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

...even though you said yes to the wrong man, I hope that won't cause you to say no to the right one.

I tired the back door -- unlocked. Truley the Man Upstairs was smiling down on me.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

Since no man has a predetermined destiny, every day all man can create a new destiny for himself!

The concept of fate is an open insult against man's willpower!

To reach the future, man needs to be clever and more important than this he must be lucky!

I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.