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Quotes About Fate

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
~ Herodotus
O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.
~ Homer
Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.
~ Honore de Balzac
The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.
~ Jane Addams
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
~ John Dryden
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
~ John Dryden
That power Which erring men call Chance.
~ John Milton
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]
~ Ludovico Ariosto
The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.
~ Mario Andretti
It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.
~ Mario Puzo
A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.
~ Mark Twain
There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.
~ Mitch Albom
Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
It is the doom of men that they forget.
~ Nicol Williamson
The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.
~ Pietro Aretino
Man proposes, God disposes.
~ Plautus
No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.
~ Publilius Syrus
The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]
~ Ovid
Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]
~ Ovid
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
~ Rachel Gibson