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 | ""Fortune knocks at every man?s door once in a life," but in a good
many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear
her." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "A great fortune is a great slavery." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "Depend not on fortune, but on conduct." | |
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Publilius Syrus
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| "Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer?d." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none." | |
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Martial
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| "Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is
what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside." | |
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O. Henry
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| "Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave" | |
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James Russell Lowell
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| "Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on
fortune." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "He that waits upon Fortune, is never sure of a Dinner." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "I am not now in fortune"s power: He that is down can fall no
lower." | |
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Samuel Butler
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| "Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good Fortune deceived
not" | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii
fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the
most unhappy kind of misfortune." | |
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Boethius
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| "It is a madness to make Fortune the mistress of events, Because in
herself she is nothing, but is ruled by Prudence." | |
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John Dryden
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| "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." | |
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Jane Austen
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| "It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest
business. What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing
of a large fortune." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "Luck is not chance ? It"s toil ? Fortune"s expensive smile Is
earned." | |
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Emily Dickinson
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| "Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always
here." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "Read the tea leaves." | |
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Proverb
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| "The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good
fortune of the bad Bows their heads down to the earth." | |
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Saadi
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| "The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to
himself, I shall to-day be uppermost." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing
melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads on the heels of great
and unexpected riches." | |
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Jean de La Bruyére
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| "We do not know what is really good or bad fortune." | |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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