Fortune Quotes
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I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
Wilson Mizner
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Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
William Shakespeare
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Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
Seneca the Younger
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
Sophocles
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Isaac D'Israeli
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I made a fortune getting out too soon.
J. P. Morgan
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Oscar Wilde
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.
Epictetus
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I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.
Edith Widder
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
Tacitus
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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
Ovid
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
Petrarch
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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.
Akhenaton
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Everyone thinks with 'Smash,' because it looks glossy and big, they think they're spending a fortune, and they think it's taking weeks to shoot.
Raza Jaffrey
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You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.
David Pleat
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Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
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Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Seneca the Younger
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The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast
Rachel Caine
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I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
William H. Wharton
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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
Idries Shah
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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.
Aristotle
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Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare