Quotes About Uncertainty

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue.

Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.

I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?

A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

The doctor looked at my cardiogram and made that "hmmmm" noise that doctors are taught in medical school so they won't come right out and say "UH-oh!"

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.

The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.