Quote: Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. Author: Douglas William Jerrold 1803-1857, British Humorist, Playwright
Quote: There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. Author: James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
Quote: Good fortune and evil fortune come to all things alike in this world of time. Author: Moasi
Quote: There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. Author: Charles De Montesquieu 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher
Quote: I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear. Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: I do have big tits. Always had 'em -- pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em. Author: Dolly Parton 1946-, American Musician, Country singer, Actress, Songwriter
Quote: Fortune favors the prepared mind. Author: Louis Pasteur 1822-1895, French Scientist Who Developed ''Pasteurization''
Quote: One's best fortune, or, their worst is their spouse. Author: Proverb
Quote: Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune. Author: Proverb
Quote: A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: Against change of fortune set a brave heart. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in. Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin
Quote: Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid. Author: Latin Proverb Sayings of Latin Origin
Quote: Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. Author: Francis Quarles 1592-1644, British Poet
Quote: We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist
Quote: Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery. [Julius Caesar] Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. Author: Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC, Roman Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Fortune favors the brave. Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: Fortune sides with him who dares. Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. Author: Vincent Voiture
Quote: Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. Author: Walt Whitman 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic
Quote: Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Behind every great fortune there is a crime. Author: Honore De Balzac 1799-1850, French Novelist
Quote: Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold. Author: Eric Butterworth
Quote: Each man is the smith of his own fortune. Author: Appius Claudius Caecus
Quote: Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. Author: Charles V 1500-1558, King of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor.
Quote: Every individual is the architect of his own fortune. Author: Appius Claudius 4th - 3rd BC, Aristocratic Roman Statesman, General