Fortune Quotes
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When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.
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Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
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...the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.
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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
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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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Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
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Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
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Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
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Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry. A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
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The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
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I always just wanted to have the wherewithal to make another record. I never really dreamt of fortune or fame, because it seemed so unlikely. I'm much more interested in people's perceptions of me than what my life is really like. It appears that some people think it's all cocaine and caviar for Okkervil River. And it's not. I'm making a little bit more than I was making at the video store right now.
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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.
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To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
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The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.
