Fate Quote by John Webster Download Open image “Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.” — John Webster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fate Fortunate May Men Wisdom Wise
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few;… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“We make desire, not truth, the real clue to what’s valuable. If we desire something, then it has value; if not, we despise and… — John Webster Copy Share Image
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons. — John Webster Copy Share Image
“In company with Christians down through the ages, we read…every passage of Scripture…out of the fact that for us, the center of Scripture is… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“Fellowship with God is what human beings are for. That is, we flourish as human beings if we live in free and joyful and humble relation to God. To be human is to be in relation to God—and that relation to God is not a sort of added extra, something to supplement our lives. It is the core of being… — John Webster Copy Share
“Pull and pull strongly for your able strength / Must pull down heaven upon me” — John Webster Copy Share Image
“Think't the best voyage that e'er you made like an irregular crab which, though’t goes backward, thinks that it goes right, because it goes… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“Why is it that we often go away from Scripture unmoved, unaffected, dull? In the end, it’s because we refuse to be schooled by… — John Webster Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.] — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since… — Alexander the Great Copy Share
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the vote they had taken as children was a joke. There was no turning back, never had been. They were on a track as preordained as the memory-track which had caused him to look up when he… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Fate and future both are servant to the determined, for they are nothing but creation of human determination.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image