Fortune Quotes

everything associated with weddings cost the same - a fortune.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.

And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts.

A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.

I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

Hopefully, I will emerge more shining. If I have that good fortune, if I am blessed in that way - and I do feel I am in the middle of the blessing - then I have faith my service will be greater.

The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

I watch 'Jeopardy!' every night and 'Wheel of Fortune' follows. And every time I'm like, 'Whoa, it's still on! This is still happening!'

Who shall guess what I may be?Who can tell my fortune to me?For, bravest and brightest that ever was sungMay be - and shall be - the lot of the young!

If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.

O' youth do not disobey the words of the wise. Its better than fortune if the wise-one gives you advice.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on "The Simpsons". See, there's "The Simpsons", and then there's everything else.

I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl.

Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.

Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young landWith many reasons whyThere but for fortune, go you or IYou or I.

The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.

Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.

A great fortune enslaves its owner.