Fortune Quotes

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Fortune, that favors fools.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

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

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.