Fortune Quotes

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Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them. — Anthony Horowitz
As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness… — Feist
When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could… — Jonathan Ames
I have taken unto myself her fortune and her glory, as a wreath off a tree. Like a mountain with broad foundation may she sit… — Atharva Veda
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure — Aristotle
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart… — Chinese Proverbs
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife — Thomas Fuller
To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without,… — Samuel Johnson
His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust — Buddha
By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever — Lao Tzu
It is only when you look now and see success that you say that it was good fortune. It was not. We lost 250 of… — Margaret Thatcher
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never… — Mark Twain
Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen. — John Marshall
He said: O my people! why do you seek to hasten on the evil before the good? Why do you not ask forgiveness of Allah… — Quran
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or… — Denis Diderot
They say he's [Yogi Berra] funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf… — Casey Stengel
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit — Jonathan Swift
If there are no miracles then we need to find another word for the existence of life the existence of you and me on earth.… — Robert White
Little people do not wear well under either extremes of fortune — Samuel Johnson
Wars will be increasingly more hypocrite, they will pass from the classical battle field to informatics systems counting new eases to be built or that… — Sorin Cerin
If ignorance paid dividends most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics — Unknown Author
Lady Luck's maiden name was Miss Fortune — Elizabeth Bibesco
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him — Samuel Johnson
Wisdom to be sure is the great conqueror of Fortune, giving precepts in its sanctified pages; but we also judge those happy who have learned… — Juvenal
Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own… — Unknown Author

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