Top 1200 Fortune Teller Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]

I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.

Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.

I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

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

I have had the fortune of seeing very glamorous and beautiful woman close up and I have seen their fears and insecurity.

When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.

Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

I came to the States less to find fortune and fame and more to kind of have a life experience of seeing something new.

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

When life has beaten you up and you can't see a way to go on. Trust that tomorrow will change your fortune.

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

The lazy part of me would love to do a sitcom where I could work three days a week and make a fortune.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

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

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.

My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build a Fortune 500 company at Symantec.

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

When I pursued music, I was told, 'oh, he's just pursuing fame and fortune and he's left the call of Christ in his life.'