Quotes About Fortune

Luck marches with those who give their very best

I often think that the Romans were fortunate; their civilization reached as far as hot baths without touching the fatal knowledge of machinery.

Everything has a price." "We are all dealt a hand at birth. A good hand can ultimately lose - just as a poor hand can win - but we must all play the cards the fate deals. The choices we face may not be the choices we want, but they are choices nonetheless.

He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed him.

The causes of his embitterment were many, remote and near. He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity. Yet his anger lent nothing to the vision. He chronicled with patience what he saw, detaching himself from it and tasting its mortifying flavour in secret.

He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity. Yet his anger lent nothing to the vision. He chronicled with patience what he saw, detaching himself from it and tasting its mortifying flavour in secret.

He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity. Yet his anger lent nothing to the vision.

Everybody gets their own ration of luck, they say.

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends, having a perfectly good opinion of herself always and an indomitable resolution to have her own way.

Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.

One's hard luck and misfortune form the measuring stick for future good luck and fortune.

amour fait les plus grandes douceurs et les plus sensibles infortunes de la vie.

Miss Moneybags.

Yo tengo dinero

If you are lucky you will find something you love, if youre really lucky youll find someone to pay you for it

I'm lucky I didn't die, huh? That is seriously bottom-of-the-barrel luck Or else it's the best kind of luck there is

for the wealthy.

the Rockefeller

I was just lucky to have a uniform.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.'

There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.