Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
~By Dick Gephardt ~
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
~By Francis Bacon ~
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.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
~By Euripides ~
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
~By Raymond Queneau ~
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
~By Charles Dickens ~
When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.
~By Johnny Isakson ~
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
~By Vincent Voiture ~
Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
~By Eric Butterworth ~
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.
~By Pierre Laval ~
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
~By George Mason ~
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
~By Douglas William Jerrold ~
No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
~By Patty Duke ~
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
~By John Webster ~
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
~By Louis Pasteur ~
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
~By Ausonius ~
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
~By Tecumseh ~
Fortune favors the brave.
~By Terence ~
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
~By Bodhidharma ~
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.
~By Julius Streicher ~
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
~By Arthur E. Waite ~
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
~By Lew Wallace ~
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
~By Lucius Accius ~
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
~By Sydney Carter ~
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
~By Rachel Field ~
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
~By Torquato Tasso ~
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
~By Sophocles ~
As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.
~By Daniel Nathans ~
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
~By Franz Schubert ~
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
~By Anita Brookner ~
I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.
~By Anna Held ~
I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.
~By Robert Walpole ~
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
~By Tacitus ~
It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.
~By Placido Domingo ~
Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.
~By Jamal Lewis ~
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
~By Aeschylus ~
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
~By Marguerite Yourcenar ~
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
~By Russell Baker ~
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
~By Moliere ~
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
~By Madame de Stael ~
Fortune is either with you or it's not.
~By Tom Araya ~
If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.
~By Sela Ward ~
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
~By Margot Asquith ~
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
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.
~By George Farquhar ~
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
~By Joseph Addison ~
How can you expect a man to be brave when he meets with nothing in life but misfortune?
~By Gregorio M. Sierra ~
When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
~By Robert Southwell ~
There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
~By Jane Austen ~
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.
~By Phil Ochs ~
During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
~By Walther Bothe ~
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
~By Johann Georg Zimmermann ~
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
~By Epicurus ~
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.
~By Amar Bose ~
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
~By William McFee ~
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
~By Euripides ~
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
~By Charles V ~
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
~By Herodotus ~
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
~By Epicurus ~
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
~By Barry Gibb ~
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
~By Voltaire ~
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
~By Sophocles ~
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.
~By Guy Johnson ~
I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.
~By Rob Paulsen ~
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
~By Voltaire ~
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
~By Ovid ~
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
~By Titus Livius ~
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
~By Thucydides ~
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
~By Boethius ~
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
~By Francis Bacon ~
There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.
~By Dante Hall ~
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