Quotes About Fortune

Have you a mind to marry? You hang a stone around your neck; for if you marry for money, what becomes of our exalted notions of honor and so forth? You might as well fly in the face of social conventions at once. Is it nothing to crawl like a serpent before your wife, to lick her mother's feet, to descend to dirty actions that would sicken swine — faugh! — never mind if you at least make your fortune.

El secreto de las grandes fortunas sin causa aparente es un crimen olvidado, porque se ha cometido de una manera limpia. –Silencio,

Tive agora a noção do que é ser pobre, ao desejar ter fortuna para dar ao meu filho

Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait. The secret of a great fortune made without apparent cause is soon forgotten, if the crime is committed in a respectable way.

Si en aquel semblante se adivinaban los destellos del genio que emprende el vuelo, igualmente se veían las cenizas junto al volcán; y la esperanza se extinguía en un profundo sentimiento de nulidad social, en la que los orígenes oscuros y la falta de fortuna mantienen a tantos espíritus superiores.

But God must be a good fellow; He cannot owe me any grudge. I swear to you, I would give my whole fortune if faith such as Bourgeat's could enter my brain.

Corruption has come to him with fortune, — as it always does!" he said to himself

Le baptême de la Ligne lui fit perdre beaucoup de préjugés ; il s'aperçut que le meilleur moyen d'arriver à la fortune était, dans les régions intertropicales, aussi bien qu'en Europe, d'acheter et de vendre des hommes.

La bohème n'a rien et vit de ce qu'elle a. L'Espérance est sa religion, la Foi en soi-même est son code, la Charité passe pour être son budget. Tous ces jeunes gens sont plus grands que leur malheur, au-dessous de la fortune, mais au-dessus du destin.

Le hasard est le plus grand romancier du monde : pour être fécond, il n'y a qu'à l'étudier.

This prudent step had led to success; the foundations of his fortune were laid in the time of the Scarcity (real or artificial), when the price of grain of all kinds rose enormously in Paris. People used to fight for bread at the bakers' doors; while other persons went to the grocers' shops and bought Italian paste foods without brawling over it.

a woman of questionable morals, a writer for the stage; frequenting theatres and actors; squandering her fortune among pamphleteers, painters, musicians, a devilish society, in short. She writes books herself, and has taken a false name by which she is better known, they tell me, than by her own. She seems to be a sort of circus woman who never enters a church except to look at the pictures.

Paris est un sujet d'envie pour ceux qui ne l'ont jamais vu ; de bonheur ou de malheur (selon la fortune) pour ceux qui l'habitent, mais toujours de regrets pour ceux qui sont forcés de le quitter.

She was ignorant of love, having never known it, and, like all the other persons grouped about her, she saw nothing in marriage but a means of fortune. Passion was an unknown thing to these Catholic souls, these old people exclusively concerned about salvation, God, the king, and their property.

If you pay court to a young girl whose existence is a compound of loneliness, despair, and poverty, and who has no suspicion that she will come into a fortune, good Lord! it is quint and quatorze at piquet;

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

The best business you can go into you will find on your father's farm or in his workshop. If you have no family or friends to aid you, and no prospect opened to you there, turn your face to the great West, and there build up a home and fortune.