Quotes about Fortune
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
- William Hazlitt
Luck is the residue of design.
- John Milton
So we need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with. But not in the rather silly modern way of horoscopy and telling your fortune by the stars... They want their "fortune" told, never this misfortune.
- DH Lawrence
They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only see the light and joy, and call it luck; do not see the long and arduous journey, but only behold the pleasant goal, and call it good fortune; do not understand the process, but only perceive the result, and call it chance.
- James Allen
The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win
- Charles Spurgeon
Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.
- St. Basil
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
- George Eliot
A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
- Thomas a Kempis
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
- Charles Dickens
The happiness he gives is quite as great, as if it cost a fortune.
- Charles Dickens
You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can't help showing it.
- Charles Dickens