Fortune Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
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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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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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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
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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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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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Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.
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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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O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.
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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
