Fortune Quotes

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.

Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.

I am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million.

The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.

It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can afford all kinds.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.

I never pay a fortune for clothes.

When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.

Tony [Touch] is like my big brother. He's somebody that I grew up listening to. I've had the fortune of befriending a lot of my idols in a positive way. Tony is one of them.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.

I just feel fortune just to have been lucky enough, and worked hard enough, and blessed.

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.