Quotes with fortune-telling

Quotes 81 till 100 of 325.

• Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

  Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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• Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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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.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

  Horace
  Roman poet
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• Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

  Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• Fortune sides with him who dares.

  Virgil
  Roman poet (70 - 19)
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• Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

  John Webster
  English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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• Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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• From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning.

  Carol Loomis
  American financial journalist (1929 - )
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• Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

  Anzia Yezierska
  Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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• Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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• Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

  William James
  American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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• Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.

  Rufus Choate
  American lawyer, orator, and Congressman (1799 - 1859)
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• Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

  Francis Quarles
  British poet (1592 - 1644)
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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
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• acquaintances
• conservative
• conveniences
• vicissitudes
• impediments
• enterprises

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