Quotes About Fortune

One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip to the store caused the winning?

she may have been happier before the Black Swan of her success than after.

chance favors the prepared

Remember that positive Black Swans have a necessary first step: you need to be exposed to them.

that which came with the help of luck could be taken away by luck (and often rapidly and unexpectedly at that). The flipside, which deserves to be considered as well (in fact it is even more of our concern), is that things that come with little help from luck are more resistant to randomness.

A person can get slightly ahead for entirely random reasons;

It is easier for the rich to get richer, for the famous to become more famous.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, as it was Roger Chillingworth's, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble imbue of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.

a golden liquid, worth more than liquid gold;

Fortune may shine brightly on a woman like that, but the shadow cast is long and dark.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

But fate is a freak when it comes to messing with your future in ways you don't see coming.

Ce n'est que par les beaux sentiments qu'on parvient à la fortune.

Ann, I love you. I hope my car starts. I hope the sink isn't plugged up. I'm glad I didn't fuck a groupie. I'm glad I'm not very good at getting into bed with strange females. I'm glad I'm an idiot. I'm glad I don't know anything. I'm glad I haven't been murdered. When I look at my hands and they are still on my wrists, I think to myself, I am lucky.

the gods seldom give but so quickly take.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I'm not the happiest man on earth I'm surely the luckiest man alive.

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

Perché sfotti così la tua bellezza? le chiesi.Perché non ci vivi insieme, e via? Perché la gente pensa ch'è tutto quel che ho. La bellezza non è niente, la bellezza non dura. Non lo sai quanto sei fortunato, tu, a essere brutto, che se a qualcuno gli piaci, così sai che è per qualche cosa d'altro.

It was a lucky night.

the gods have been kind to me through this life-style that would have killed an ox of a man and I'm no ox of a man.

Mi sono sempre piaciute le gambe. E' stata la prima cosa che ho visto quando sono nato. Ma allora stavo cercando di uscire. Da quel momento in poi ho sempre tentato di andare nell'altra direzione, ma con fortuna piuttosto scarsa.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

He picked out a little twenty-dollar gold piece