Plautus Quotes

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

History is totally unpredictable.

One event makes another: what we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.

It's funny how things work out sometimes.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.

Things never happen exactly how you think they will.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.

You know, never say never.

Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Just think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in.

You can be careful as far as you can, but you never know when you're going to fall over and break your ankle. It's like when you drive a car, you don't think about crashing, do you?

But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would wish for anything. And that would be so much sadder.