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Quotes About Fortune

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
~ Walt Whitman
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
~ Horace
If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don't do anything very strange!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The winds of fortune tend to favour the sails of those who politely yell out to it, 'Nice to meet you!
~ Nabil Sabio Azadi
Even the wheel of fortune can run over you.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
~ Curtis Carlson
Life sucks, and then you die.Yeah, I should be so lucky.
~ Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
It is fate, damn destiny, that has its way with us.
~ Kate Mildenhall, Skylarking
, m./But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be 'set fair' that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.
~ John Bude
That powerWhich erring men call Chance.
~ John Milton
It [the Spanish-American War] has been a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favored by that fortune which loves the brave.
~ John Milton Hay
Well, Chum, the poor man's Bing Crosby is still making with the throat here in Chi. but if the present good fortune keeps up I ought to be getting the New York break pretty soon.
~ John O'Hara
Frequently our apparent mistakes give birth to our biggest blessings.
~ John O'Leary
Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
~ John Pierpont Morgan
O, Lord, how devious we can be! Our hearts are deceitful, and we look quickly for reasons to believe that our disobedience is not serious. Humble us before the truth that there is one Judge and one God whose fellowship and fatherly delight is more precious than all the pleasures of sin. Forbid that we would forfeit this fortune -- even for a season -- while justifying our sin by thinking that it is small and partial surrounded by other good deeds.
~ John Piper
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
~ John Ray
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a employee. Profits make you a fortune
~ John Roth
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
~ John Ruskin
Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.
~ John Selden
Well Good Luck Pilgrim
~ John Wayne
Fortune's a right whore: If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels, That she may take away all at one swoop.
~ John Webster
all those upon whom it was bestowed, inevitably found that there was a curse upon it, for they were all either led to the scaffold, or sunk to the lowest and the most abject misery.
~ John William Polidori
Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
~ John Wyndham
I have been rich, and I have been poor. Believe me baby, rich is better!
~ Ella Fitzgerald