Chance Quotes

There is no such things as chance; and what seems to us the merest accident springs fro m the deepest source of destiny.

Schiller.

By the world chance we merely express our ignorance of the cause of any fact or effect not that we think that chance was itself the cause.

Henry Fergus.

The doctrine of chances is the bible of the fool.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance; but I see no reason why providence should not make use of it.

Simms.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art so not able to make an oyster!.

Jeremy Taylor.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases which he does not choose to subscribe openly with his own sign manual.

Coleridge.

The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel wand of chance.

Tupper.

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman runs away with the applause.

Home.

Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man’s hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.

Herbert.

How often events, by chance, and unexpectedly, come to pass which you had not dared even to hope for!.

Terence.

Chance never writ a legible book; never built a fair house; never drew a neat picture; never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it, without absurdity, be supposed to do them, which are yet works very gross and rude, and very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.

Barrow.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Ovid.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Voltaire.

He who distrusts the security of chance takes more pains to effect the safety which  results from labor. To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says “Leave no stone unturned.”

Bulwer.

There is no such thing as chance or accident, the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

Adam Clarke.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Joubert.