A Quote by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
February 5, 1626 - April 17, 1696

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.

Samuel Smiles

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

Wait a while; there will come to you mounts, carrying lions in shining armor, battalions followed by battalions.

Khalid ibn al-Walid

God is on the side of the big battalions.

George Bernard Shaw

Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

Critias

God is always with the strongest battalions.

Frederick the Great

Donald Trump is going to take our Army up to 6,000. And Obama and Hillary are going to take it down to 4,200. He is going to take our Marine Corps from 23 battalions to 35 battalions. And he's going to reestablish and modernize our nuclear program.

Rudy Giuliani

We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.

Norman Jewison

Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.

Stanley Ho

Good fortune has side effects.

Martha Beck

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

Sophocles

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.

Fareed Zakaria

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.