Kate Morton Quotes

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

There are no inevitabilities in history

We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Man plans. God laughs.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Any damn fool can predict the past.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

Does fate ever play by the rules?

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.