Quotes About Fortune

There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now...

Kind sir, give me a good fortune. Fortuneteller: I don't make fortunes; I only see them. Charmian: Then see a good one for me. Fortuneteller: Your beauty will be even greater than it is now. Charmian (to the others) He means I'll get fat. Iras No, he means you'll use makeup when you're old. Fortuneteller: You will love more than you are loved. Charmian: I had rather heat my liver with drinking.

I am fortunes fool.

What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes.

There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

Por un extraño azar la próvida Fortuna, que ahora me acompaña, ha traído hasta aquí a mis enemigos, y por presciencia veo que mi cenit depende de un astro sumamente favorable y que, si no aprovecho su influencia, mi suerte decaerá. Cesen ya tus preguntas. Te duermes. Es benigna soñolencia. Abandónate: no puedes evitarla. (Próspero)

I was not born under a rhyming planet. . . .

If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last, When other petty griefs have done their spite, But in the onset come: so shall I taste At first the very worst of fortune's might; And other strains of woe, which now seem woe, Compar'd with loss of thee will not seem so.

Why, 'Some are born great, some achieve great-   ness, and some have greatness thrown upon them.

The merciless Macdonald (Worthy to be a rebel, — for, to that, The multiplying villainies of nature Do swarm upon him) from the Western Isles Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; And Fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Showed like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak: For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name) Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour's minion, Carv'd out his passage.

You must take your chance.

O, I am fortune's fool!

In all prospering human affairs there is a streak of hazard, a blending of good fortune with good judgment which gives the lucky man a sense of having earned his deserts and gives the deserving, if he is modest, an awareness of his luck. That

Making money at gambling was like seeing ghosts: you never met someone who'd seen a ghost, only someone who knew someone who'd seen a ghost. You only met people who knew people who'd made a fortune at White's. Or on the racecourse.

When I met you I was an inebriate, half bankrupt squireen. You didn't know what a catch you were making! I didn't know I was making any catch, said Demelza. Ross rubbed his nose. I didn't know what sort of a catch I was making either. Dear Heaven, that was the luckiest day of my life.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck...One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

Nemesis personifies "the Goddess of Retribution, who brings down all immoderate good fortune, checks the presumption that attends it, …and is the punisher of extraordinary crimes".36

Il ne faut jamais oublié quand un malheur vous frappe, qu'il peut très bien vous épargner un ennui pire encore; ou que, quand vous commettez une lourde erreur, cela peut très bien vous servir mieux que la décision la plus sage. La vie est un tout, la chance est un tout, et on ne peut séparer aucun élément du reste.

you never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

It is true Greek tragedy, with Chance as the ever ready hand-maid of Fate.

The goddess of Battles visits warriors only once. He who does not grasp her at such a moment never reaches her again.

Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.

If 80 percent of life is showing up, the other 80 percent, as Yogi Berra might've said, is chance.