Fate

Famous quotes containing the word fate:

“Such is the fate of simple Bard,
On life’s rough ocean luckless starr’d:”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“Then die that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee;”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

“See him, when starved to death and turned to dust,
Presented with a monumental bust!
The poet’s fate is here in emblem shown:
He asked for bread, and he received a stone.”
—Samuel Wesley (1691–1739)