- Quotes by John Dryden
“Ill fortune seldom comes alone. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more”. - Quotes by William Robertson Davies
“What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us”. - Quotes by Sir Winston Churchill
“Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely let the reader mark it that they are identical”. - Quotes by Lydia Maria Child
“Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel’s face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs”. - Quotes by Antons Chekhov
“Tell mother that however dogs and samovars might behave themselves, winter comes after summer, old age after youthand misfortune follows happiness (or the other way around). A person can not be healthy and cheerful throughout life. Losses lie waiting and man can not safeguard against death, even if he be Alexander of Macedonia. One must be prepared for anything and consider everything to be inevitably essential, as sad as that may be”.
- Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
“For of fortunes sharpe adversitie, The worste kind of infortune is this, A man that hath been in prosperitie, And it remember, when it passed is. Fortune hath in her honey galle”. - Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
“Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy”. - Quotes by Raymond Carver
“So far, he had kept away from any real harm, from those forces he knew existed and that could cripple or bring down a man if the luck went bad, if suddenly turned”. - Quotes by Samuel Butler
“I am not now in fortune’s power: He that is down can fall no lower”.
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