Fortune Quotes · Page 53

The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They…

— Oliver Goldsmith

There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to…

— Patrick Swayze

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

— Amelia Earhart

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will…

— Thomas Dekker

Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to…

— Eknath Easwaran

Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these…

— John Steinbeck

“As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds…

— Hermann Bahr

I've had the fortune of working with a large Malayali crew in Priyadarshan's 'Bumm Bumm Bole' and Ajay Verma's 'SRK,' which is…

— Rituparna Sengupta

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

— Seneca the Younger

I wanted to be famous and I wanted to make a fortune, and I've done that.

— Phil Hellmuth

To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

— Alexander Pope

If Life was fair, we'd all be dead.

— Rock Cowles

Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath…

— Paul Verlaine

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own…

— Francis Bacon

Cheers to the albums written fortunes earned lives touched in the millions and generations defined by one lonely person placing an ad…

— Dallas Clayton

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from…

— Thomas a Kempis

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

— Mindy McCready

Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let…

— Aristophanes

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

— Robert Burton

I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money,…

— Anonymous

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

— Robert Southwell

I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

— Edie Falco

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— William Shakespeare

“Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy”

— Jason Fried