58 Fortune Quotes

The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they chafed in impatience and disgust. The religious element in the colony-unlike the former Huguenot emigration to Brazil--was evidently subordinate. The adventurers thought more of their fortunes than of their faith.

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.

Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune.

Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper. It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of avaricious adventurers, who, instead of employing their capital, if any they have, in manufactures, commerce, and other useful pursuits, make it an instrument to burden all the interchanges of property with their swindling profits, profits which are the price of no useful industry of theirs.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public.

If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.

Her strong sense that neither she nor any human being deserved less than was given, did not blind her to the fact that there were others receiving less who had deserved much more. And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom such unbroken tranquility had been accorded in the adult stage was she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.

Fortune favours the brave:

He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.

And the final event to himself (Mr. Burke) has been, that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence;- Then in a moment-Presto, pass!- Your joys are withered like the grass;

Deos fortioribus adesse.

The Goddess Fortune is the devils servant ready to Kiss any ones Arse.

'If I come dressed like a village maid, I am but as my fortunes are: I am a beggar born,' she said, 'And not the Lady Clare.'

'I am ruminating,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'on the strange mutability of human affairs.' 'Ah! I see - in at the palace door one day, out at the window the next. Philosopher, Sir?' 'An observer of human nature, Sir,' said Mr. Pickwick. 'Ah, so am I. Most people are when they've little to do and less to get.'

And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.

The wheel of Fortune tourneth as a ball; Sodeyn clymbyng axeth a sodeyn fall.

Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.

There is a curse on this house.

We are passing through a period of great commercial prosperity, and such a period is as sure as adversity itself to bring mutterings of discontent. At a time when most men prosper somewhat some men always prosper greatly; and it is as true now as when the tower of Siloam fell upon all alike, that good fortune does not come solely to the just, nor bad fortune solely to the unjust. When the weather is good for crops it is also good for weeds.

Hey wait, you forgot your fortune cookie - it reads.. you're shit out of luck

Primum quaerite bona animi; caetera aut aderunt, aut non oberunt

Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Fortuna uitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.

Fortunam citius reperias quam retineas.

If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.

Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.

Fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther off.

These are Fortunate Islands, / These are lands without a place