Fortune Quotes - page 2

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. (Baltasar Gracián)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. View quote
Jane Austen
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. View quote
Jane Austen
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass. View quote
William Blake
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. View quote
Anatole France
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. View quote
Jim Rohn
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. View quote
Mark Twain
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. View quote
Walt Whitman
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. (Honoré de Balzac)
That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away. View quote
Seneca
Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god. View quote
Aeschylus
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. View quote
Julius Caesar
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
When Fortune smiles, I smile to think How quickly she will frown. View quote
Robert Southwell
It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. View quote
Cicero
... vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. View quote
Edward Gibbon
To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficultyto keep heart when all have lost it to go through intrigue spotlessto forego even ambition when the end is gained who can say this is not greatness. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. View quote
Torquato Tasso
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. View quote
Torquato Tasso
I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it. View quote
Mae West
Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man. View quote
Livy
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