Quotes About Fortune

Each man's destiny is hung like a medallion around his neck.

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.

Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.