Fortune Quote by Baltasar Gracian Download Open image “Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.” — Baltasar Gracian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fortune Long Shoulders Tire Wealth
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop. — John Webster Copy Share Image
See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands,… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.” — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some… — Mookie Betts Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of… — Giraldus Cambrensis Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A great JRPG captures that feeling of going on an unusual adventure, of bringing a ragtag group of heroes from famine to fortune or… — Jason Schreier Copy Share Image
A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
