Chance

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Quotations about chance

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• A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.
  • Warren Buffet, 2000 Chairman's Letter Berkshire Hathaway Inc., February 28, 2001.

• Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.
  • Democritus (ca. 4^th century BC)

• I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
  • Ecclesiastes 9:11, King James Bible

• Le hasard, c'est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu quand il ne veut pas signer.
  • Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
  • Théophile Gautier, La croix de Berny (Paris: Librairie Nouvelle, 1855), p. 28

• Under the bludgeonings of chance
  My head is bloody, but unbowed.
  • W. E. Henley (1849-1903), Invictus

• In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
  • Louis Pasteur, in a lecture, University of Lille (7 December 1854)
  • Variant translation: Chance favors the prepared mind.

• Times go by turns, and chances change by course,
  From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.
  • Robert Southwell (1561-1595), Times go by Turns

• The lost chance is never the last one.
  • Leonid S. Sukhorukov, All About Everything (2005)

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• If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
  • Thomas Fuller

• I'll give you a definite maybe.
  • Samuel Goldwyn

• I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
  • Jonathan Swift

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• He who waits for chance may wait for a year.
  • Proverb, published in The Jo|Chancef Negro History (1916)

• Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

• Chance favours the prepared mind, but only if the other guy isn't as lucky as you are.

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
  • English proverb

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