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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
Marcel Proust
More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.
Jon Stewart
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Andy Rooney
Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
Dave Barry
It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.
Richard Pryor
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
Bobby Knight
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
Phyllis Diller
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Plutarch
No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Benjamin Disraeli
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Alexander Pope
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Spike Milligan
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson
