Top 1200 Good Fortune Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.

I admit to spending a fortune on women, booze and gambling... the rest I spend foolishly.

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.

Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous

Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

I found it was my good fortune to somehow be able to work in these forms that I loved when I was a kid. I love movies and I could write screenplays. I love theater and I could write plays. I mean, they would be my own, I could never write what was used to be called the well-made play. But my first play, "Little Murders," turned out to be a great success and a great influence on plays at that time.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

If the weather is sunny, it is good; if the weather is rainy, it is good; if it is foggy, it is good; if it is stormy, it is good; if it is damn cold, it is good; if it is damn hot, it is good! With a positive attitude of mind, all becomes good!

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

I am not going to fiddle taxes. I pay my accountant a fortune to look after me.

This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.

Even if I make a fortune in films, I want to have a diploma so I don't finish life as a little clerk.

I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.

A just fortune awaits the deserving. [Lat., Fors aequa merentes Respicit.]

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

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.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper.