Fortune Quotes
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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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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O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.
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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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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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A prince indebted is a fortune made.
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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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Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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I had the good fortune early on to cast some really great people that were not just characters, they had character.
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Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, how to be free from it, that's the point. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
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May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
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Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
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I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
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One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.
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Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good – fortune.
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The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
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For me, it [Crimea] is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes.
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Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
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When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
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Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor
