Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Chance generally favours the prudent. Joubert.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those 40 particular cases which He does not choose to subscribe openly with His own sign-manual. Coleridge.

Chance is the providence of adventurers. Napoleon.

Chance will not do the work: / Chance sends the breeze, / But if the pilot slumber at the helm, / The very wind that wafts us towards the port / May dash us on the shelves. Scott.

Chances, as they are now called, I regard as guidances, and even, if rightly understood, commands, which, as far as I have read history, the best and sincerest men think providential. Ruskin.

Change is inevitable in a progressive country—is constant. Disraeli.

Change of fashions is the tax which industry 45 imposes on the vanity of the rich. Chamfort.

Changes are lightsome, an' fules are fond o' them. Sc. Pr.

Change yourself, and your fortune will change too. Port. Pr.

Chansons-à-boire—Drinking-songs. Fr.