Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

“Men plan. Fate Laughs.”

— Jim Butcher

“Our destiny is not fixed, humans plan their own fate and it may vary by our decisions and actions.”

— Naralia Lizardo

Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Fate laughs at probabilities

— Anonymous

“Will to Gundar: I'm looking for fighting men. I plan to sack a castle, and I hear you people are rather good at that.”

— John Flanagan

“Will: I'm looking for fighting men. I plan to sack a castle, and I hear you people are rather good at that.”

— John Flanagan

“As the old adage goes: ‘Men plan, and God laughs.”

— Dan Brown

It's like that old expression: "Men plan and god laughs." You sort of see that in the television world, where you have an idea…

— Vince Gilligan

I approached flying with full enthusiasm and even won a scholarship. Fate, it seems, had other plans and after completing my course, i ended…

— Mukul Dev

“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the…

— Shannon L. Alder

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

— Horace

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

— Christoph Martin Wieland

“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.”

— Idries Shah

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a…

— Khushwant Singh

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

— Fergus Henderson