Quotes with fortune

Quotes 101 till 120 of 215.

• 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.

  Horace
  Roman poet
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• If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.

  Bernard M. Baruch
  American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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• If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

  Bodhidharma
  semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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• Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

  De Consolatione Philosophia Book II, section 4, line 4

  Boethius
  Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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• In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

  Plutarch
  Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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• In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.

  Bill Dedman
  American journalist (1960 - )
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• Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

  Anatole France
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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• It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

  Anthony Trollope
  British writer (1815 - 1882)
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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  Jane Austen
  English writer (1775 - 1817)
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• It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.

  E. B. White
  American writer (1899 - 1985)
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• It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

  Nicolas Chamfort
  French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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• It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

  Friedrich von Schiller
  German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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• It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

  John Dryden
  English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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• It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

  Francesco Petrarca
  Italian poet and writer (1304 - 1374)
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• It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• It is we that are blind, not fortune.

  Sir Thomas Browne
  British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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• It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

  Adam Baldwin
  American actor (1962 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unreasonable
• perseverance
• sufficiently
• acknowledged
• cowardliness
• infinitely

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