"'Tis Fate that flings the dice And as she flings Of kings makes peasants And of peasants kings."
- Anonymous
"Thou must (in commanding and winning or serving and losing suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer."
- Goethe
"We make our fortunes and we call them fate."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"Though men determine the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip."
- Robert Greene
"The Moving Finger writes and having writ Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
- Omar Khayyam
"The die is cast."
- Suetonius