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| Chance Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye... We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please. | Pliny the Younger | |
| 2 | There is no such thing as chance or accident, the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause. | Clarke | Adam |
| 3 | Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases which he does not choose to subscribe openly with his own sign-manual. | Coleridge | Samuel |
| 4 | By the word chance we merely express our ignorance of the cause of any fact or effect -- not that we think that chance was itself the cause. | Fergus | Henry |
| 5 | Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game. | Herbert | |
| 6 | The man who complains he never had a chance probably hasn't the courage to take a chance. | Hill | Napoleon |
| 7 | Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman runs away with the applause. | Homer | |
| 8 | Chance generally favors the prudent. | Joubert | Joseph |
| 9 | There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us the merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. | Schiller | |
| 10 | The doctrine of chances is the bible of the fool. There is no doubt such a thing as chance; but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it. | Simms | William |
| 24 quotations on Chance |

