Chance Quote by Juvenal Download Open image “Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.” — Juvenal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chance Fool Fortune Pleasure Toss Wealth Wheels
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop. — John Webster Copy Share Image
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours. — Horace Copy Share Image
So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime? — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Before I debuted, it was my goal to make my debut, and afterwards, I aimed at winning champion titles on television music shows, and… — Hyuna Copy Share Image
I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm… — Stipe Miocic Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob that won't turn, a door that sticks and never budges, is a nuisance to the gods. The gods may kick in the jamb. Worse, they may walk away in disgust, leaving us to hang dumbly from… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Love changes people, for better or for worse. You could look at it as a chance for you to change. The best kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image