Row on whatever happens. [ Rabelais ]
Nothing happens for nothing. [ French Proverb ]
It happens in an hour that comes not in an age. [ Proverb ]
There is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens. [ Proverb ]
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Death never happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives. [ La Bruyere ]
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
He that is well, and ventures to be ill, deserves no pity when it happens. [ Proverb ]
It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. [ Vicesimus Knox ]
There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. [ N. Caussin ]
If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out. [ Lessing ]
I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain. [ Beaconsfield ]
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor. [ Hazlitt ]
Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. [ La Bruyere ]
Men believe that their reason governs their words; but it often happens the words have power to react on reason. [ Bacon ]
Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind; everything contributes imperceptibly to make us what we are. [ Goethe ]
Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done. [ Froude ]
Since every man that lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal minds what happens let us bear. [ Dryden ]
To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither the one nor the other. [ Epictetus ]
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy. [ Cicero ]
Nature has given to each one all that as a man he needs, which it is the business of education to develop, if, as most frequently happens, it does not develop better of itself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible. [ Colton ]
The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens. [ Metastasio ]
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it: but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. [ Burke ]
A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with everything that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best. [ C. C. Colton ]
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Chance is a term we apply to events to denote that they happen without any necessary or foreknown cause. When we say a thing happens by chance, we mean no more than that its cause is unknown to us, and not, as some vainly imagine, that chance itself can be the cause of anything. [ C. Buck ]
Man reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven. [ Humboldt ]
A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty. [ Goldsmith ]
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together - a main plot and an underplot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress. [ Colton ]
It unfortunately happens that no man believes that he is likely to die soon. So every one is much disposed to defer the consideration of what ought to be done on the supposition of such an emergency; and while nothing is so uncertain as human life, so nothing is so certain as our assurance that we shall survive most of our neighbors. [ Aughey ]
As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern. [ Fielding ]