Fortune Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
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So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.
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Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
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A prince indebted is a fortune made.
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.
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Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.
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Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune
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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
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Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone. Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away; And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.
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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.
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I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.
