Quotes About Fortune

I love online gambling.

Once in New York, you are sure to be a great success. I know lots of people there who would give a hundred thousand dollars to have a grandfather, and much more than that to have a family ghost.

In her dealings with man, destiny never closed her accounts.

Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

Keep your run along a course between those constellations. I leave the rest to Fortune: may she help and guide you better than you do yourself.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.

Yes, sir. There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.

It sometimes seems to me that in this life we've all got to have trouble sooner or later, and some of us gets it bit by bit, spread out thin, so to speak, and a few of us gets it in a lump—biff!

How often in this life a mere accident may shape our whole future!

Now, a great many fellows think that having a rich uncle is a pretty soft snap: but, according to Corky, such is not the case.

Scrubby, impecunious men drift to and fro there, waiting for the gods to provide something easy; and the prudent man, conscious of the possession of loose change, whizzes through the danger zone at his best speed, 'like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread, and having once turned round walks on, and turns no more his head, because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread.

We are in a dream state. The only way to wake up is to refuse to recognize anything as reality except God. Otherwise you will again and again sink to your knees in a mud of suffering that is of your own making, until you realize that neither good fortune nor evil fortune is real, that He alone is real. Then all earthly delusions (disease and health, joy and sorrow, life and death) will pass away.

If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.

when you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.

Put another way, if you made $1 billion in a year, you'd be earning about $19 million a week, $475,000 an hour, and $8,000 a second!

Something always turned up. That was Tom's philosophy.

Por acaso a vida distribuía apenas os quinhões merecidos?

Unto those who have,it shall,uncannily, be given.Unto those who have not,it shall,uncannily,be taken away.

There, but for the grace of God, go I.

How I long for more time... but time is a commodity even my vast fortune cannot afford.