Fortune Quotes · Page 36

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

— William Shakespeare

It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.

— John C. Bogle

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter…

— Ayn Rand

You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.

— Daniel Bryan

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

— Daniel Boone

Donald J. Trump has the good fortune of taking office as the economy is finally recovering from the 2008 crisis.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As the consumer is the public general, without distinction of rank or fortune, the free market is the most obvious expression of…

— Faustino Ballve

The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange,…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and…

— Ann Patchett

Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches…

— Andrew Carnegie

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your…

— Stanley Ho

As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest…

— William Shakespeare

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a…

— Brandy Potter

Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers…

— Brock Yates

In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied;…

— James Madison

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity,…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too…

— Jean-Paul Marat

It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have…

— Merle Shain

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should…

— Plutarch

“The rich, noisy city, fat with food and drink, is a spent thing; it's chief concern is its digestion and its little…

— Willa Cather

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as…

— Benjamin Disraeli

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

— Jim Davis

Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction.

— George Ade

Gay marriage, I am so against it because if all my gay friends get married, it will cost me a fortune in…

— Joan Rivers

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

— Jim Fixx

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches…

— Thomas Carlyle

“It is our duty as believers to bring joy and fortune to the less privileged among us”

— Sunday Adelaja

For me, it [Crimea] is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes.

— Vladimir Putin

If 'Bio-Man' dies, maybe I'll go on and work on something that becomes the next 'Wheel of Fortune.'

— Haim Saban

“Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.”

— Honore de Balzac

One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by…

— Hugh Dalton

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

— Marie Jeanne Riccoboni

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

— Amish Tripathi

“... fortune is not in time or place or things; but, good or bad, in the man’s own self for him alone…

— Percy FitzPatrick

Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.

— Claire Tomalin

I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.

— Carla Gugino