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| 'Tis hard if all is false that I advance, A fool must now and then be right, by chance | | William Cowper | |
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| A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. | | Winston Churchill | |
| A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought | | Anais Nin | |
| A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
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| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. | | Aristotle | |
| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. | | Aristotle | |
| All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy | | Spike Milligan | |
| All nature is but art, unknown to thee; all chance, direction, which thou canst not see; all discord, harmony not understood; all partial evil, universal good | | Alexander Pope | |
| All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right | | Alexander Pope | |
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| Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. | | Euripides | |
| Chance is a nickname of Providence | | Chamfort | |
| Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. | | Ovid | |
| Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. | | Anatole France | |
| Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. | | Anatole France | |
| Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. | | Theodore Roosevelt | |