Talk:Chance

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• 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).
• 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

Anonymous

• He who waits for chance may wait for a year.
  • Proverb, published in The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 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

• If you see a deer, there's a good chance that it's not alone