Fortune Quotes II

FORTUNE QUOTES II

quotations about fortune

Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Delays," Essays

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If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Fortune," Essays

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Only he has a right to complain of undeserved misfortune, that is unwilling to accept undeserved good fortune.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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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

Essays

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He that waits upon Fortune, is never sure of a Dinner.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1734

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He that hath no ill Fortune will be troubled with good.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754

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Raillery against fortune is the common eloquence of disappointment and misguided ambition.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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The life which is implicated with fortune (depends on fortune) is like a winter torrent: for it is turbulent, and full of mud, and difficult to cross, and tyrannical, and noisy, and of short duration.

EPICTETUS

Fragments

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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me,
I have a soul that, like an ample shield,
Can take in all, and verge enough for more....
Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's....
Souls know no conquerors.

JOHN DRYDEN

Don Sebastian

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Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

AESOP

"The Charger and the Miller", Aesop's Fables

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On Fortune's cap we are not the very button.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

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Oh, wheel of fortune
Please don't pass me by
Let me know the magic
Of a kiss and a sigh

DINAH WASHINGTON

"Wheel of Fortune"

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Fortune, until now kind to me, begins to wear a frowning face.

VITTORIO ALFIERI

Merope

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Fortune's a fickle jade. If she does not say yes the first five times you ask her, ask her twenty-five times. After a while she will favor you, for she loves importunity.

FRANK CRANE

"Ten Success Hunches," Four Minute Essays

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[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

CHINUA ACHEBE

A Man of the People

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

ANITA BROOKNER

The Paris Review, fall 1987

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A good fortune may forbode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune.