Fortune Quotes · Page 45

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love.

— Adam Lambert

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

— Johann Gustav Droysen

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

— Luke Goss

Briggsy's performances down the years have been pure magic. If they could bottle his ability and sell if at drama schools they'd…

— Lynne Perrie

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

— Anonymous

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

— Adam Gopnik

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

— Richard Barnfield

Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from…

— Marcus Aurelius

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for…

— Bertrand Russell

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical.…

— Josh Kaufman

“I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is…

— neil gaiman

Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent…

— Mariella Frostrup

Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech…

— Ishmael Reed

“I was taught to be queen by Margaret of Anjou, and perhaps I have taught you how to be queen in turn.…

— Philippa Gregory

Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know…

— J. Cole

Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down.…

— Zicheng Hong

Hidden in all good fortune is misfortune. And in all misfortune is good fortune. It's never going to stay the same as…

— Wayne Dyer

A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your…

— Joey Bishop

“I assure you, Alexandra Pavlovna,' said Pigasov slowly, 'nothing can be worse and more injurious than good-fortune that comes too late. It…

— Ivan Turgenev

All those years I had been making movies because I loved movies, and that's what made all the difference. If you're doing…

— Robert Rodriguez

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness…

— Seneca the Younger

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

— Thomas Carlyle

My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health

— Kyffin Williams

No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

— Publilius Syrus

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine…

— Jane Austen

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Even if I make a fortune in films, I want to have a diploma so I don't finish life as a little…

— Alessandra Mussolini

More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.

— William E. Conway, Jr

“Ignorance actually limits God from intervening in the misfortunes of our personal lives and that of our society.”

— Sunday Adelaja

All those who slight me to my face, Or do me any other evil, Even if they blame or slander me, May…

— Shantideva

I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm…

— Leonard Maltin

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

— Sallust

I just feel fortune just to have been lucky enough, and worked hard enough, and blessed.

— Kid Rock

Bloomberg believes his money can buy anything - even the liberty of individual Americans. After all, his personal fortune bought him public…

— Wayne LaPierre