Fortune Quotes - Page 10

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.

If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world is too damn crowded, or what, but it's something that I've been noticing for awhile.

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Misfortunes make us wise.

See your misfortunes as blessings.