Fortune Quotes
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I made a fortune getting out too soon.
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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
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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.
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Apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.
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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.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
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Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
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Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.
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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
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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.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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.
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You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.
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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.
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The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast
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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.
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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
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The only hard step in building up my fortune was the first thousand dollars. After that it was easy.
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A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.
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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
