Quotes with fortune

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• This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

  Amelia E. Barr
  British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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• Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• To be, or not to be; that is the question;
  Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
  The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
  Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
  And by opposing, end them.

  Hamlet

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

  W. M. Thackeray
  Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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• To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

  Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

  Bruce Feirstein
  American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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• Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

  Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability. We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

  Thomas Alva Edison
  American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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• Up on Housing Project Hill, it's either fortune or fame. You must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

  Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

  Bob Dylan
  American musician (1941 - )
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• War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

  Sir Walter Raleigh
  British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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• We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

  Jean de la Fontaine
  French writer (1621 - 1695)
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• We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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• We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

  Alain de Botton
  Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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• We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

  Jean de la Fontaine
  French writer (1621 - 1695)
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• Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

  Lord Melbourne
  British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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• When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

  Sir John A. Macdonald
   
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• When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

  Billie Jean King
  American tennis player (1943 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unsusceptible
• unfortunately
• universally
• opportunity
• preparation
• possession

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