Quotes about Fortune

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

A hypocritical businessman, whose fortune had been the misfortune of many others, told Mark Twain piously, "Before I die I intend to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I want to climb to the top of Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud." "I have a better idea," suggested Twain. "Why don't you stay right at home in Boston and keep them?

A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be build on ten thousand ruined men who were left without the means of life.

Whatever fate befalls you, do not give way to great rejoicings or great lamentation; partly because all things are full of change, and your fortune may turn at any moment; partly because men are so apt to be deceived in their judgment as to what is good or bad for them.

He has once built his fortune, starting out with empty hands; now he had to rebuild his life, starting out with an empty spirit

The idea of decimation as a lottery converts the new iconography of the Burgess Shale into a radical view about the pathways of life and the nature of history. ... May our poor and improbable species find joy in its new-found fragility and good fortune! Wouldn't anyone with the slightest sense of adventure, or the most weakly flickering respect for intellect, gladly exchange the old cosmic comfort for a look at something so weird and wonderful - yet so real - as *Opabinia*?

If you want to know how fortunate you are, visit three places: the slum, the hospital, and the cemetery.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

We make our fortunes and call them fate.

We make our own fortunes, and call them fate.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up. -L.M. Montgomery