fortune quotes

• All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. (Samuel Johnson) [countries/fortune]
• Too poor for a bribe and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. (Thomas Gray) [method/fortune]
• As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly. ( Akhenaton) [fortune/danger/courage]
• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. (Francis Bacon) [wife/fortune/virtue]
• Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. (Francis Bacon) [fortune/market/price/willpower]
• Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. (Francis Bacon) [fortune/fortune]
• Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. (Francis Bacon) [look/fortune]
• The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. (Francis Bacon) [fortune]
• You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. (Anita Baker) [housing/fortune/housing/share]
• One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow. (Charlotte Bronte) [fortune/business/bliss]
• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. (Miguel De Cervantes) [mother/fortune/idleness]
• The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works. (Miguel De Cervantes) [fortune]
• There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it. (Marcus Cicero) [fortune/money/take]
• Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. (Marcus Cicero) [more/change/fortune]
• The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost. ( Confucius) [fortune]
• Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned. (Emily Dickinson) [chance/fortune/smile]
• It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. (John Dryden) [fortune/prudence]
• Fortune befriends the bold. (John Dryden) [fortune]
• It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [fortune/skill]
• The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [fortune/employment/happiness]
• His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. (Henry Fielding) [lady/fortune/marriage]
• Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. (Anatole France) [fortune/virtue]
• He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. (Benjamin Franklin) [fortune]
• He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner. (Benjamin Franklin) [fortune]
• Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. (Benjamin Franklin) [human/fortune/day]
• Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires. (Benjamin Franklin) [fortune/appetite/present/more]
• Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. (Benjamin Franklin) [perseverance/fortune]
• A wise man turns chance into good fortune. (Thomas Fuller) [chance/fortune]
• Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. (Thomas Fuller) [fortune]
• The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [fortune]
• It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [fortune]

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