Quotes
Quotes about Fortune
The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode, A country lad and lassie, Along the heavy road. The night was dark and stormy, But blithe of heart were they, For shining in the distance The lights of London lay. O gleaming lights of London, that gem of the city's crown; What fortunes be within you, O Lights of London Town!
Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion.
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously.
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.
The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. [Lat., Conscientia rectae voluntatis maxima consolatio est rerum incommodarum.]
Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]
When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. [Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.]
But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far Outstripping all, comes to every land, And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers Do afterwards redress.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]
I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great.
There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives! [Lat., Nil est nec miserius nec stultius quam praetimere. Quae ista dementia est, malum suum antecedere!]
Such a house broke? So noble a master fall'n; all gone, and not One friend to take his fortune by the arm And go along with him?
Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
