fate Quotes

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Leave the rest to the gods.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.