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Quotes About Fortune

Get as much experience as you can, so that you're ready when luck works. That's the luck.
~ Henry Fonda
Chance usually favors the prudent man.
~ Joseph Joubert
Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
~ Persian Proverb
The long arm of coincidence.
~ Anonymous
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
~ Walter Scott
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
~ Samuel Johnson
Every dog must have his day.
~ Jonathan Swift
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
~ Saint Catherine of Siena
True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.
~ John Hay
"What is your fortune, my pretty maid?" "My face is my fortune, sir," she said.
~ Nursery Rhyme
To many fame comes too late.
~ Luis de Camoens
The bow is bent, the arrow flies, The winged shaft of fate.
~ Ira Aldridge
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Though men determine, the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.
~ Robert Greene
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!
~ Virgil
Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.
~ Izaak Walton
If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.
~ Anonymous
Considering the fortune you might have lost, you'll have to admit you're rich already.
~ John Rothchild
The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much is not enough if expended foolishly.
~ Christian Bovee
Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
~ Anonymous
The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.
~ Homer
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
~ Livy