Chance Quotes

Lightning never strikes twice (in the same place).

Even a blind hog will find an acorn now and then.

He who trusts all things to chance, makes a lottery of his life.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight.

Experience has proved, that chance is often as much concerned deciding… matters as bravery; and always more, than the justice of the cause.

If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favorable than the chance […]

No victor believes in chance.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.