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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.
I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.
Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can't get something for nothing?
Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,
My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
every success depends upon focusing the heart.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
I know that I can cook well on a low budget so I can't really justify spending a fortune on food.
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.
It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
No man has perpetual good fortune.
[Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]
When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
I am not going to fiddle taxes. I pay my accountant a fortune to look after me.
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.
Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
Good fortune then!
To make me blest or cursed'st among men.
Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.
O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it.
People think you earn a fortune in TV, but that's not always the case, especially when you're working as a children's presenter.
Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.
If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.
I left school when I was 14 to go into Danish films. When I was 17, I went to Paris to make my fortune.
It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous
I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.
