Myself and the lucky moment. [ Charles V ]

That touchstone Opportunity. [ Charles Reade ]

Opportunity makes the thief. [ Proverb ]

Strike while the iron is hot. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Opportunity is the great bawd. [ Franklin ]

There's a time for all things. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gather roses while they bloom,
Tomorrow is yet far away.
Moments lost have no room,
In tomorrow or today. [ Gleim ]

Every man has his appointed day. [ Virgil ]

Danger will wink on opportunity. [ Milton ]

The May of life only blooms once. [ Schiller ]

Thou strong seducer, opportunity. [ Dryden ]

O opportunity, thy guilt is great! [ William Shakespeare ]

Plough deep while sluggards sleep. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift,
He is the proper man. [ Goethe ]

Man's extremity is God's opportunity. [ Proverb ]

Alas, for the treachery of opportunity! [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Little opportunities should be improved. [ Fenelon ]

Take all the swift advantage of the hour. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is, sir, a critical minute in
Every man's wooing, when his mistress may
Be won, which if he carelessly neglect
To prosecute, he may wait long enough
Before he gain the like opportunity. [ Marmion ]

Lose no opportunity of doing a good action. [ Proverb ]

There's place and means for every man alive. [ William Shakespeare ]

Age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress;
And, as the evening twilight fades away.
The stars are seen by night, invisible by day. [ Longfellow ]

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity. [ Wieland ]

There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries:
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures. [ William Shakespeare ]

Ability is of little account without opportunity. [ Napoleon I ]

An opportunity is often lost through deliberation. [ Publius Syrus ]

Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant. [ Proverb ]

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. [ Bacon ]

Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Zeal and duty ... on occasion's forelock watchful wait. [ Milton ]

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity. [ George William Curtis ]

The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity. [ Philarète Chasles ]

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door. [ Chamfort ]

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. [ Lavater ]

Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish. [ Lord Stanley ]

I have been tempted by opportunity, and seconded by accident. [ Marmontel ]

We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. [ William Shakespeare ]

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]

Trust your dog to the end; a woman - till the first opportunity. [ Proverb ]

Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Let us, my friends, snatch our opportunity from the passing day. [ Horace ]

Nothing is too late till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. [ Longfellow ]

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. [ Cromwell ]

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages. [ Carlyle ]

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity. [ Balzac ]

Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die. [ Southern ]

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [ Seneca ]

Thou strong seducer, opportunity! of womankind, half are undone by thee. [ Dryden ]

Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice. [ Voltaire ]

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. [ Charles Buxton ]

When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment. [ Victor Hugo ]

A constrained will seeks every opportunity to slip its head out of the collar. [ Proverb ]

Improve time in the present; for opportunity is precious, and time is a sword. [ Saadi ]

Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of daily occurrence. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

When a thief has no opportunity for stealing, he considers himself an honest man. [ Talmud ]

The devil tempts us not; 'tis we tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity. [ George Eliot ]

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginning and outsets of things. [ Bacon ]

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed by, as a loss of power. [ Emerson ]

Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time. [ Wordsworth ]

Some women are so just and discerning that they never see an opportunity to be generous.

There is an hour in each man's life appointed to make his happiness, if then he seize it. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Take time by the forelock. (Make prompt use of anything and not let slip an opportunity.) [ Thales ]

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for iiis opportunity when it comes. [ Earl Of Beaconsfield ]

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. [ Hippocrates ]

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try to use ordinary situations. [ Richter ]

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work. [ Suckling ]

The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and that of doing good once a year. [ Voltaire ]

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. Time is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. [ Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) ]

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it. [ Haliburton ]

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered. Opportunity! [ Moore ]

He who is always inquiring what people will say, will never give them opportunity to say anything great about him. [ Blanco White ]

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. [ Johnson ]

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. [ Beaconsfield ]

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. [ George Eliot ]

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

The art of conversation consists less in showing one's own wit than in giving opportunity for the display of the wit of others. [ La Bruyere ]

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent. [ Rousseau ]

It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well. [ Sydney Dobell ]

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues. [ Hazlitt ]

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. [ George Eliot ]

The best men are not those who have waited for chances, but who have taken them, besieged the chance, conquered the chance, and made the chance their servitor. [ Chapin ]

Is thy friend angry with thee? Then provide him an opportunity of showing thee a great favor. Over that his heart must needs melt, and he will love thee again. [ Richter ]

They who neglect the opportunity of reaping a small advantage in hopes they shall obtain a better, are far from acting on a reasonable and welladvised foundation. [ S. Croxall ]

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone. [ Rev. T. Jones ]

There is no man whom Fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door and flies out at the window. [ Cardinal Imperiali ]

Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald. If you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her; but if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again. [ Seneca ]

There are few who, either by extraordinary endowment or favour of fortune, have enjoyed the opportunity of deciding what mode of life in especial they would wish to embrace. [ Cicero ]

The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress. [ William Shakespeare ]

In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily placed as to exhibit a view of the whole design. [ Shenstone ]

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend. [ Ruskin ]

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself [ South ]

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. [ Bible ]

The great moments of life are but moments like others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak. [ Thackeray ]

That policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance which, like Cromwell's, can make the iron hot by striking; and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it. [ Colton ]

Negligence or Neglect? Negligence is a habit; neglect is an act. The following sentences illustrate the difference in the meaning of these words:
His negligence was the source of all his misfortunes,
By his neglect he lost the opportunity. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Occasion or Opportunity? The occasion is that which determines our conduct, and amounts to a degree of necessity; the opportunity is that which invites to action. We do things as the occasion requires, or as the opportunity offers. We may have occasion to write a letter without having the opportunity. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. That is the reason why people who live out of town are so uncivilized. There are only two ways of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt. Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

There are certain times in our life when we find ourselves in circumstances, that not only press upon us, but seem to weigh us down altogether. They give us, however, not only the opportunity, but they impose on us the duty of elevating ourselves, and thereby fulfilling the purpose of the Divine Being in our creation. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Everyone must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet the supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]