Fortune Quotes
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
Tacitus
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Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
Demosthenes
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Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.
William Shakespeare
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Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.
William Somervile
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Jane Austen
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From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.
Ernest Lawrence
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My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.
Reinhard Selten
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I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.
Mindy McCready
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True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
Sallust
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I've had some good fortune in this building. It's always challenging. The two sides upstairs and downstairs play differently. There's a lot of obstacles here and a lot of things that keep you on your toes. But the fans here are great and I think it's our most prestigious tournament.
Chris Barnes Cannibal Corpse
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I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.
Richard MacDonald
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Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
Anthony Trollope
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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
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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
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Fortune is either with you or it's not.
Tom Araya Slayer
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The fortune of war is always doubtful.
Seneca the Younger
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Dont listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, theyd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.
Michael Cudlitz
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Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Raymond Queneau
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Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
Miguel de Cervantes
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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
Winifred Holtby
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Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.
William Shakespeare
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Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.
Ed Seykota