More quotations tagged with “chance”
The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
—Flip Wilson
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Second chances are wonderful if you know what to do with them.
—Heather Burch in One Lavender Ribbon
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—Unknown
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
—William Jennings Bryan