Joan Rivers Quotes

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

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

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Man thinks, God directs.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.

Man plans, but God decides.

The two grand tyrants of the Earth, Time and Chance.

No one knows when the man up above wants to call your name.

It's never guaranteed for somebody to be successful. It just really be God.

Life takes you down weird paths.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth--the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.