Top 1200 Fortune Teller Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

Restaurants with small courses that give the customer choices, and that don't obligate them to spend a fortune, are going to do very well.

The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance.

We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a clown or a boxer. And there is no lasting value in either one of those.

Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.

People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on Mad Max in Africa, so we became really fast friends.

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in living on it.

A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.

I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?

If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store to buy gummy bears.

Publications such as Forbes and Fortune continually rank Georgia cities as among the best places to live, work and run a business.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

That each day that you love, honor, and respect your own unique point of view, you're a step closer to finding a fortune.

If you ask me what is the best good fortune in my life, of course I say that I have seen in my lifespan the Wall coming down, the reunification.

We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.

Obviously, I want it to be legally downloaded, and I myself have spent a fortune on iTunes because, for me, that's the easiest way to get music.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

I did not make my disclosure about the deceitful manipulation of the U.N. before the invasion of Iraq began in order to garner fame or fortune.

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.