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The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld I shot an arrow into the air It fell to earth I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Arrow and the Song Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe. - Menander Chance governs all. - John Milton That power which erring men call chance. - John Milton Or that power Which erring men call chance. - John Milton, Comus (l. 587) Next him high arbiter Chance governs all. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 909) No victor believes in chance. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) The opposites of apparent chance are constancy and sensible interposition. - William Paley, Archdeacon of Saragossa There must be chance in the midst of design; by which we mean that events which are not designed necessarily arise from the pursuit of events which are designed. - William Paley, Archdeacon of Saragossa In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur Chance is a second master. - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) All chance, direction, which thou canst not see. - Alexander Pope There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. - Thomas Pynchon Chance is blind and is the sole author of creation. - Xavier Saintine (pseudonym of Joseph Francois Boniface), Picciola (ch. III) Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance. - George Sand (pseudonym of Mme. Armandine Lucile Dupon Dudevant) Chance will not do the work--Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us towards the port May dash us on the shelves.--The steersman's part is vigilance, Blow it or rough or smooth. - Sir Walter Scott, Fortunes of Nigel (ch. XXII) Ours is no sapling, chance-sown by the fountain, Blooming at Beltane, in winter to fade. - Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake--Hail to the Chief (canto II) But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows. - William Shakespeare I have set my life upon a cast, and I will stand the hazard of the die. - William Shakespeare Prithee go hence, Or I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through th' ashes of my chance. - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at V, ii) Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Scroop, Archbishop of York at IV, ii) But as th' unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows. - William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (Florizel at IV, iv) Displaying page 2 of 3 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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