Fortune Quotes
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
Kate Moss
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The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
Sydney Carter -
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Isaac D'Israeli -
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.
Lester B. Pearson -
By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
Moliere -
Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
William Shakespeare
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
Petrarch -
The only hard step in building up my fortune was the first thousand dollars. After that it was easy.
John Jacob Astor -
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
Ovid -
Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune
Sandra Brown -
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 -
What else may hap, to time I will commit.
William Shakespeare
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Francis Bacon -
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
William Hazlitt -
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Oscar Wilde -
Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes -
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 -
A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.
Eden Phillpotts
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Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare -
You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.
David Pleat -
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.
Francis Bacon -
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
Idries Shah