Quotes
Quotes about Fortune
A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Fortune befriends the bold.
Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
Fortune favours the bold.
Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Calamities are of two kinds. Misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. [Lat., Nihil est aptius delectationem lectoris quam temporum varietates fortunaeque vicissitudines.]
Holy Saturday Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878 Sing, men and angels, sing, for God our Life and King Has given us light and spring and morning breaking Now may man's soul arise as kinsman to the skies, And God unseals his eyes to an awaking. Sing, creatures, sing; the dust that lives by lure and lust Is kindled by the thrust of life undying; This hope our Master bare has made all fortunes fair, And man can on and dare, his death defying. After the winter snows a wind of healing blows, And thorns put forth a rose, and lilies cheer us; Life's everlasting spring has robbed death of his sting, Henceforth a cry can bring our Master near us.
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.
Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown: Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss.
Fortune helps the brave.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villainy! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety!
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
