Quote

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Phyllis Bottome

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
Author
Novelist
Writer
Phyllis Forbes Dennis
Greater
Forget
Upon
Every
Contingency
Enters
Count
Luck
Fool

More quotes by Phyllis Bottome

Image
I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
to everything there is an end - except fear.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
Phyllis Bottome
Image
There is no thermometer for wants!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Truth is its own defense.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
Phyllis Bottome