"Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as……" — John Dryden
"Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings."
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John Dryden
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335 Quotes by John Dryden
John Dryden has 335 quotes on this site.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
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Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
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Not to ask is not be denied.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
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Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure,…
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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More Dice Quotes
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect…
— Max Born
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
— Charles Bukowski
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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively…
— Albert Einstein
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Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice…
— Mickey Rooney
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The dice of God are always loaded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The…
— Albert Einstein
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Always examine the dice.
— Groucho Marx
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