Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate.
Alexander Pope
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
Horace
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Albert Camus
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine
Destiny has two ways of crushing us by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
Publilius Syrus
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.
Marcellinus Ammianus
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
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
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
Lord Byron
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