Quotes About Fortune

Fortuna favet fortibus (fortune favors the brave) -mentioned in The Black Book of Secrets

Fate is written in the face.

My voice is stained with bloody light, and I see irises dry up at its touch; in my song I wear the finery of a white-faced clown. Love, sweet Love, hides under a spider. The sun, another spider, hides me under legs of gold. I will not find my fortune, for I am like Love himself, whose arrows are tears, and whose quiver is the heart...

La suerte viene a quien menos la aguarda.

Be bold. Be brave. Don't thank your lucky stars. The stars can't hear you.

Because ownership isn't the important thing. If you want to be rich, it's the only thing. THE

Siempre lo oy dezir, que es más difícile de sofrir la próspera fortuna, que la aduersa: que la vna no tiene sosiego e la otra tiene consuelo.

La vida es así, por un lado nos da y por el otro nos quita. A algunos por ambos lados les quita. Y a nadie por ambos lados le da.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

I'd have thought any man might consider himself very fortunate to be loved by a lady who spoke the language of goddesses and could find her way amongst the stars.

At some point, someone must have yelled "Good job, Kaz!," which my father interpreted as "You should go on television and win a fortune!" Bowling

Now is the appointed time. Today is the day of my amazing good fortune.

Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free.

Today is the day of my amazing good fortune.

As long as these ideas prevail, it is clear that the responsibility of government is enormous. Good fortune and bad fortune, wealth and destitution, equality and inequality, virtue and vice – all then depend upon political administration.

Just as in money we see the sign of wealth, we see also in paper money the sign of money; and thence conclude that there is a very easy and simple method of procuring for everybody the pleasures of fortune.

Cómo le daba gracias al cielo por haberme concedido la suerte de conocer a semejante criatura.

Porque la suerte no depende de ti, sino del azar.

There are those who have made their fortunes on other people's misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.

That's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise

From the purely selfish standard, every fresh tie we form means giving a new hostage to fortune, and adding a new risk to our happiness. Apart from any moral evil, every intimacy is a danger of another blow to the heart. But if we desire fulness of life, we cannot help ourselves.

People go to Vegas, and they don't know what to do; here's what you do. You go to the casino in your hotel. On your arrival, you get $100 in quarters. Take that $100 back to your hotel room and stare at it for a long, long time. Why? Because you're never going to see them again. Then you take those quarters to the bathroom and you flush them, one by one by one. And the nice thing about that is that every so often the toilet will back up, and you'll feel like a WINNER!

The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss anyone's arse.

Every night, and every morn, Some to misery are born. Every morn, and every night, Some are born to sweet delight.