Fortune Quotes

Lovers, like dying men, may well At first disorder'd be, Since none alive can truly tell What Fortune they must see.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.

Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.

Disruption is about risk-taking. But then you become a Fortune 500 company, which is about risk mitigation

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.

Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying.

Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

If you ever have the good fortune to meet Tippi Hedren, she's an amazing woman. You can't quite believe she is the age she is.

I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.

Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.

What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? "Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.

If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get paid a fortune and hang out in a huge trailer.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!

Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.

It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.

If fortune torments me, hope contents me.

Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.

So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.

Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?