Quotes About Fortune

All is luck or ill luck in this world.

Don't offer me advice;give me money #Star Shine

Time, Wine, Women, and fortune, are ever changing.

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.

When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

En este mundo nuestro, ocho veces de cada diez las cosas no salen según se había previsto, pero, como reza otro antiguo proverbio, ¿quién sabe si es buena o mala fortuna que el anciano de Sai pierda su caballo?

Nadie amasa una fortuna sin hacer harina a otros

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Grabbed in the ass by fate," his father used to say about coincidences like this. If there were coincidences like this. If there were coincidences...

Purity, they imagined, was only becoming in those on whom fortune had not smiled. It is the moon which has room or stains, not the stars.

When the Goddess of Fortune deserts a house, she usually leaves some of her burdens behind, and this ancient family was still encumbered with its host of dependents, though its own shelter was nearly crumbling to dust. These parasites take it to be an insult if they are asked to do any service. They get head-aches at the least touch of the kitchen smoke. They are visited with sudden rheumatism the moment they are asked to run errands.

A man doesn't have to seek misfortune; it's gonna throw at him uninvited.

The unexpected sometimes looks like a prompting of fate.

Lo inesperado a veces parece una invitación del destino.

It's frightening to live on luck

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck - and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both.

In my heart I'm just a lucky waitress.

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.