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Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
How fate is stubborn and holds to habit.
Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.
Eccentricities of genius.
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Luck is the bastard child of Fate and Destiny.
Luck is the residue of design.
Ignominy thirsts for consideration.
Fate can be tricky and troublesome when not managed well.
But Fate does iron wedges drive,
And always crowds itself betwixt.
The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.
[Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]
The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual "There!" - yet
Irony is finally you found the perfect one, but there's so many obstacles to make the perfect one yours.
Of a terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices archive the most disproportionate result.
Fate is a great accident.
Luck is a residue of design.
For a lot of us, the opposite of auspicious coincidence is obstacles. Life usually is a mixture of both, but as we begin to exhibit exertion, more and more auspiciousness happens.
The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.
Luck is tenacity of purpose.
There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs ... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.
Irony is wasted on the stupid
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ...
Consider the odd morphology of regret.
looked upon as misfortunes, which must be
When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.
Adversity is the midwife of genius
The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility.
Fate is not quite as strange as it appears!
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things, ...
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.
Paying the iron price.
A thin line separates destiny from coincidence.
the worst misfortune isn't only misfortune
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
The right things often happen for the wrong reason.
Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
Troubles teaches us what we must know.
As the storm conceals the sun, trouble conceals success.
Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.
There are elements of irony in my work, of course.
Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.
Fate is a funny thing, isn't it?
Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.
misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect.
Paradoxes are conflicting choices or conditions that demand equal attention.
Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.
To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.
fate has a cruel sense of humor
It is sometimes better to be lucky than to be smart; only luck can save us from the stupidity our wisdom can come up with.
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.
The truest sayings are paradoxical.
Misfits deal with the double-edged reality of having our differences act as the source of both our challenges as well as our successes.
life is a series of sweet coincidences
History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
Luck is the residue of design." "We're
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.
There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should.
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.
A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.
The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.
As the sun hides behind clouds, success hides behind trouble.
In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.
Chance is the fool's name for Fate
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Sometimes the most surprising things happen from our mistakes.
Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.
Fortune, that favors fools.
in our lives, the best results come from the worst mistakes. We
It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance.
Luck is stupid as a cow and blind as a bat.
Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.