Chance governs all. [ Milton ]

Law governs man, and reason the law. [ Proverb ]

But it is not reason that governs love. [ Moliere ]

It is skill, not strength, that governs a ship. [ Proverb ]

The stars govern men, but God governs the stars.

God who made the world so wisely, as wisely governs it. [ Proverb ]

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the whole world. [ John Seliden ]

God governs the world, and we have only to do our duty wisely, and leave the issue to Him. [ John Jay ]

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners. [ Sterne ]

Men believe that their reason governs their words; but it often happens the words have power to react on reason. [ Bacon ]

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men.... Everybody knows that Government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs. [ Wendell Phillips ]

There is but one law for all; namely, that law which governs all law, - the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity; the law of nature and of nations. [ Burke ]

If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

There are strange coincidences in life: they occur so a propos that the strongest minds are impressed, and ask if that mysterious and inexorable fatality in which the ancients believed, is not really the law that governs the world. [ Alfred Mercier ]