652 quotes found
“But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune.”
“Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.(Tout passe tout lasse tout casse.)”
“Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.”
“Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.”
“He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.”
“That which God writes on thy forehead thou wilt come to it.”
“When its time has come the prey goes to the hunter.”
“The bow is bent the arrow flies The winged shaft of fate.”
“'Tis Fate that flings the dice And as she flings Of kings makes peasants And of peasants kings.”
“Thou must (in commanding and winning or serving and losing suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.”
“Though men determine the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.”
“The Moving Finger writes and having writ Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.”
