Quotes about Fortune

Note that in normal cases of procreation, parents risk bringing a child into a lot of suffering; even the most fortunate of human lives is accompanied by seasons of serious suffering. Even more than that, parents procreate knowing full well that one day the child will suffer death.

Bless you, my boy. Have a horseshoe." "Thank you, sir. What should I do with it?" "Throw it." "Away?" "At that peg there. Then pick it up and throw it at this

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

Charlotte read the preprinted slip. Redeemed. $1,000. She whirled around. "Wait, sir, excuse me, but how did you know . . ." But he was gone. Along with the crowd and the hum of voices. Charlotte stood completely alone except for the battered trunk and the glittering swirl in the air.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

To believe in luck - is skepticism.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.