Top 1200 Bad Fortune Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on October 6, 2024.
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.
Donald J. Trump has the good fortune of taking office as the economy is finally recovering from the 2008 crisis.
There is much to life than fame and fortune. If you are a part of the entertainment industry, please remember it is all temporary.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.
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.'
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.
The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.
For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.
He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
[Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.
History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.
Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.
So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,
That I would set my life on any chance,
To mend, or be rid on't.
I had the good fortune to be in some movies when I was younger that, for whatever reason, people identified with or related with.
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.
Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
Every so often, I'll look at myself in the mirror and go, 'You're a bad mother,' you know? Like, 'You're a bad dude, man, and you're gonna show the world who you are when the time is right.'
I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.
Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.
