Fortune Quotes

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.

You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.

At the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu opened a fortune cookie that said, 'You will lend us another trillion dollars.'

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

What ever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

We need to create brand institutions. In the fortune 500 companies, 5 Indian companies are named while 15 are from China though we have similar kind of populations.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.