Quotes About Fortune

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Quique metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum, Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari—

That's all your life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula. Tot it up – look at the respective piles. There's nothing you can do about it: nobody shares it out, allocates it to this one or that, it just happens. We must quietly suffer the laws of man's condition, as Montaigne says.

That's ally our life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula.

I was convinced I had overdrawn my balance of good fortune; that whatever haphazard benevolence the impassive universe might hold towards me was all but gone.

Para qué le han cambiado de nombre si no es para que cambie su suerte?

And now Boon himself didn't know how to begin. He had prayed for luck, and immediately, by return post you might say, had been vouchsafed more than he knew what to do with. They have told you before this probably that Fortune is a fickle jade, who never withholds but gives, either good or bad: more of the former than you ever believe (perhaps with justice) that you deserve; more of the latter than you can handle. So with Boon. So all he said was, "Well.

Which explains a lot, having likewise noticed in my time that the goddess in charge of virtue seems to be the same one in charge of luck, if not of folly also.

Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.

Then let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.

Then let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.

Fortune turns like a wheel. One man it lifts, another it sets down! Does not the old man grieve over all he has lost?" "Who can tell? He lives quietly and peacefully, and works well.

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

Good fortune is a benefit to the wise, but a curse to the foolish.

A good fortune may forbode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune.

If fortune smiles, who doesn't? If fortune doesn't, who does?

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family's name. Wicked daughters are firebrands, blackening the family's fame.

It is unfair that one person should suffer in order for others to be blessed. If the gods were powerful enough to shape our destinies, why couldn't they just send us a good fortune untainted by sorrow?

Fortune has hair in front but is bald behind.

We are so lucky to live here," he would say, and she couldn't disagree. They were lucky that the earth had conspired to heap up such startling beauty in one place, and they were lucky that it hadn't all fallen apart yet in a a geological catastrophe.

I know the answer to the question now, by the way: why bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people. It came from my inner editor, the part of me that forces the wordy writer in me to dump ninety percent of all modifiers: Ask both questions again, minus the adjectives. "Why do things happen to people?" Just because.

Fate is a bitch, but there you go.

There was no question that Andrew was the most fantastic bloke she had the good fortune to go out with.