Quotes About Fortune

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

Unhappy Dives! in an evil hour 'Gainst Nature's voice seduced to deeds accurst! Once Fortune's minion, now thou feel'st her power; Wrath's vial on thy lofty head bath burst. In Wit, in Genius, as in Wealth the first, How wondrous bright thy blooming morn arose! But thou went smitten with th' unhallow'd thirst Of crime un-named, and thy sad noon must close In scorn, and solitude unsought, the worst of woes.

Like having your own licence to print money.

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

Why do parents do this? Often, they envy their children's childhoods--the opportunities they have; the financial or emotional stability that the parents provide; the fact that their children have their whole lives ahead of them, a stretch of time that's now in the parents' pasts. They strive to give their children all the things they themselves didn't have, but they sometimes end up, without even realizing it, resenting the kids for their good fortune.

Anyway, that was the thing about life and fate; it never was fair. Horrific things happened to good people and brilliant things happened to bad ones.

In no case do we have a company that just happened to be sitting on the nose cone of a rocket when it took off.

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

It seems that so much of good luck and bad are accidental and that the chance meetings that Pasternak had been criticized for in Zhivago are in fact the core of life.

As nearly all great fortunes in America are made on land stolen while the public's back is turned — and by people who want money but don't want to work for it, by men who use the title of builder and yet never have driven a nail into a board — nowhere was the relationship between politician and merchant closer than at the time the subways of New York were built.

but I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.

Sorte é isto. Merecer e ter.

A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

From a certain height, everyone looks the same - men, women, villains, kings - as if rank and fortune were simply an accident of perspective.

La fortuna è come un pendolo che oscilla attraverso i secoli, portando l'inevitabile.

She shrugged. You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

Happiness, honor, and great estate, For those who patiently work and wait.

Chance favours only those who know how to court her.

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30 or work after she is 30 or get married.

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

On your Birthday today, why don't you light one candle instead of blowing it out? May that candle bring you the light of good fortune in your life. Wishing you a Happy Birthday.

May health and wealth always be your friends, may good luck and fortune always be by your side, may success and goodwill always be at your beck and call. Wishing you a very Happy Birthday.

May Time, Lady Luck and Mistress Fortune always be on your side. Once they are, nothing in the world will be able to stop you. Have a great Birthday!