True Odds

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or odds:

    If then true lovers have ever been crossed
    It stands as an edict in destiny.
    Then let us teach our trial patience,
    Because it is a customary cross,
    As due to love and thoughts, and dreams, and sighs,
    Wishes, and tears—poor fancy’s followers.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    A man can seldom—very, very, seldom—fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)