Quotes About Fortune

No one deserves good or evil fortune, said Lady Beatrice. Things simply happen and one survives them the best one can.

The sisters' acquaintance Madam Nell Kimball recalled the sage advice of her aunt Letty, a retired courtesan: "Every girl, if only she knew it, is sitting on her fortune.

If sarcasm were gold, she would have just made her fortune.

So all we know about Hugh MacLean is that his financial situation is unclear, he has an unknown number of illegitimate children, and the family curse is true. I've caught quiet a prize!

A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying the barley crop and also with ignoring the court order to appear and defend themselves. Bartholomé Chassenée argued successfully that the rats hadn't come because the court had failed to provide reasonable protection from the village cats along the route.

the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

The bravest men are subject most to chance.

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

That power Which erring men call Chance.

For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.