"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."

"Le hasard, c'est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu quand il ne veut pas signer."

"People fail to appreciate how many chances they have to experience something coincidental."

"Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed."

"Chance and Time are ever twain."

"The stronghold of the determinist argument is the antipathy to the idea of chance...This notion of alternative possibility, this admission that any one of several things may come to pass is, after all, only a roundabout name for chance."

"Anyone who won't take a chance now and then isn't worth a damn."

"Chance and chance alone has a message for us... Only chance can speak to us."

"What power was this—chance, will you say? But chance, what else can it mean Than the hidden Cause of things by human reason unseen?"

"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."

"Most coincidences are simply chance events that turn out to be far more probable than many people imagine."

"Randomness, chaos, uncertainty, and chance are all a part of our lives. They reside at the ill-defined boundaries between what we know, what we can know, and what is beyond our knowing. They make life interesting."

"Le hasard est aveugle, et seul il est le père de la création."

"Scire debet quid petat ille, qui sagittam vult mittere, et tunc derigere ac moderari manu telum. Errant consilia nostra, quia non habent, quo derigantur. Ignoranti, quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est. Necesse est multum in vita nostra casus possit, quia vivimus casu. Quibusdam autem evenit, ut quaedam scire se nesciant. Quemadmodum quaerimus saepe eos, cum quibus stamus, ita plerumque finem summi boni ignoramus adpositum."

"Times go by turns, and chances change by course, From foul to fair, from better hap to worse."

"Chance is a funny thing and it is easily mistaken for portent."

"Yet its essence was the certitude that his life was not totally at the mercy of chance. Somehow, it was more important than that. This sense of power inside his head — which he could intensify by pulling a face and wrinkling up the muscles of his forehead — aroused a glow of optimism, an expectation of exciting events. He knew that for him, fate held something special in store."

"How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!"

"Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon."

"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."

"Next him high arbiter Chance governs all."

"Or that power Which erring men call chance."

"Ours is no sapling, chance-sown by the fountain, Blooming at Beltane, in winter to fade."

"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."

"I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance."

"Against ill chances men are ever merry; But heaviness foreruns the good event."

"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."

"Your worthiness is the result of chance."

"Quam sæpe forte temere eveniunt, quæ non audeas optare!"

"A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs."

"Er spricht Unsinn; für den Vernünftigen Menschen giebt es gar keinen Zufall."

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

"Principal Skinner: Of course we could make things more challenging, Lisa but then the stupider students would be in here complaining furrowing their brows in a vain attempt to understand the situation."

"Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree."

"Character in important and less important matters is that a man should steadily pursue whatever course he feels to be within his capacity."

"The clearest indication of character is what people find laughable."

"For every inch that is not fool, is rogue."

"So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or Devil."

"A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon."

"Men of light and leading."

"A demd damp, moist, unpleasant body."

"Virtue and vice had boundaries in old time, Not to be pass'd."

"Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy."

"A man’s character is formed by the Odes, developed by the Rites and perfected by music."

"The Master [Confucius] said, 'In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know the man.'"

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."

"Cada uno es come Dios le hijo, y aun peor muchas vezes."