I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.
Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty. [Lat. , Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit Pennas, resigno quae dedit, et mea Virtute me involvo, probamque Pauperiem sine dote quaero. ]
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.
And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?" "Can't girls seek their fortune?" "I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.
Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.
Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.
Fortune favors the well-prepared.
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.
No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.