Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
Ambrose Bierce
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
Nguyen Cao Ky
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As - fail
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life
Carolyn Wells
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate
Henry David Thoreau
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
Thucydides
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character
Otto Bauer
Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that Fate allows you.
Horace
kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
e.e. cummings
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
Lemony Snicket
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
Lord Byron
Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.
Ebenezer Elliott
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.
William Cowper
Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
Publilius Syrus