Quotes About Fortune

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone but is beyond control: luck.

Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck timing and accident.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but it didn't work for the rabbit!

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it.

They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.

The worst cynicism a belief in luck.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.

Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.

Go and wake up your luck.

Of course fortune has its part in human affairs but conduct is really much more important.

We must master our good fortune or it will master us.

Luck is what you have left over after you give ioo percent.

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.

He loved her for what she was - rich. He worshiped the ground her family struck oil on.

Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all.