Fortune Quotes

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.

Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.

Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.

There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues, But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.

When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and live Without a fear of evil yet to come.

The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every moment of my life. We are so fortunate just to be alive.

The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for each person an equivalent result.

Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Too caught up in me to see, I'm holding a fortune that heaven has given to me. I'll try and show you each and every way I can, now and forever, I will be your man.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like---" "Like our low prices at Bargain Mart!" Stheno suggested.

I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.

Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'"

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

Once I opened up a fortune cookie and inside was the guy's cheque next to me I said hey buddy I got your cheque he said thanks.

Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown.

Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.

My husband says, 'Roseanne, don't you think we ought to talk about our sexual problems?' Like I'm gonna turn off Wheel of Fortune for that.

Publications such as Forbes and Fortune continually rank Georgia cities as among the best places to live, work and run a business.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.

We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

Love of action is not industry.

Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

(Adron leveled a scowl that made him shrink back.) Jeeze, you ought to bottle that look. I know armies that would pay a fortune to have something that toxic in their arsenal. (Tiernan)

And the brave make their own fortune!

Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love.