Fortune Quotes

• The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Happy
  • Enjoy
  • Goods

• I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.

  

  Ethel Smyth
  • Fate
  • Noticed
  • Ill-luck

• In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • True
  • Judge
  • Fortune

• Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

  

  Demosthenes
  • Good
  • Blessing
  • Next

• There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

  

  Jane Austen
  • World
  • Men
  • Fortune

• To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.

  

  Woody Allen
  • Difference
  • Fortune
  • Religions

• On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Life
  • Fortune
  • Slender

• I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Government
  • Policy
  • Fortune

• I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on Mad Max in Africa, so we became really fast friends.

  

  Josh Helman
  • Friends
  • Fortune

• Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

  

  Raymond Queneau
  • Religion
  • Fortune
  • Disappear

• When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.

  

  Michelle Ryan
  • Reality
  • Shows
  • Absolutes

• Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Door
  • Fortune
  • Remedy

• We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Men
  • Children
  • Body

• A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Society
  • Fortune
  • First-generation

• We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before.

  

  Elizabeth Bennett
  • Friends
  • Suffer
  • Accident

• Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Life
  • Fortune
  • Apple

• Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lying
  • Fortune
  • Deceit

• It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.

  

  Al-Masudi
  • Player
  • Fortune
  • Backgammon

• Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune.

  

  Anne of Austria
  • Yourself
  • Fortune
  • Examine

• Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

  

  Benvenuto Cellini
  • Virtue
  • Feet
  • Fortune

• Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

  

  Silius Italicus
  • Fortune
  • Haste
  • Ebbs

• Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn.

  

  Gerard Houllier
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Player

• Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

  

  Carlo D'Este
  • Fall
  • Lives
  • Seeing

• A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Moral
  • Painting
  • Shows

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