Fortune Quotes · Page 37

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall,…

— Sallust

Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

— Gordon Lightfoot

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

— Zane Grey

My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build…

— John W. Thompson

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.

— William Shakespeare

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

— Aeschylus

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect…

— George D Boardman

The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will…

— Thomas Jefferson

I got a fortune cookie today. It said I should invest in something fun on four wheels. I don't know if that…

— Nikhil Saluja

“Fortune favors the brave." Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice…

— Sherry Thomas

“It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is…

— W.K. Marriott

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read…

— Alan Kay

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference,…

— Sallust

It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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

— Brandy Potter

You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without…

— Toni Morrison

Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence…

— Charles Dickens

Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s…

— Robert Greene

It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled…

— Aristotle

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan…

— Herodotus

“Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.”

— Shannon L. Alder

What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found…

— Robbin Crosby

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Quite often the things that fascinated you from childhood are the very things that will bring you fame and fortune.

— Tassel Daley

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

— Moliere

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down…

— Anonymous

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that…

— Rachel Field

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING…

— Meg Cabot

... it was as if there were always some good fortune with me that would keep me from going hungry. I knew…

— Micaela Flores Amaya

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

— Mario Puzo

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are…

— Pietro Metastasio

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

— Agnes Repplier

“I have since come to know that many men always see another’s good fortune as a slight to themselves.”

— Assassin's Apprentice Robin Hobb