Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

So much of life is what you roll and where you land.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

It's a kind of Russian roulette.

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

That's football. Sometimes luck swings your way and sometimes it doesn't.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

Time to toss the dice

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

What is life, but one long risk?

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.

Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.