Top 1200 Fortune Teller Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.

We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

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.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.

...you shouldn't hate something you don't know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I dont have to face him on Sunday.

It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can afford all kinds.

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.

The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

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

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

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.

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's long enough and sharp enough to slit your own throat,' our guardian warned me, the night before I left home to go to the royal court at Versailles ... I just laughed. 'Don't you know a woman's tongue is her sword? You wouldn't want me to let my only weapon rust, would you?

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

But while I'd be their daughter, while I'd eat the roast and come home from dates and wash the dishes, I would also be myself. I would love my mother, but I'd never want to be her again. I would never be what someone else wanted me to be. I would never laugh at a joke I didn't think was funny. I would never tell another lie. I would be the truth-teller, starting today. That would be tough. But I was tougher.

Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.

Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying.

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.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

Perhaps the biggest lesson that I would say is the one to learn is not to let fame and fortune get inside your head.

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.

Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.

I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.