(1467 quotes found)
“A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife”
Thomas Fuller
“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.”
Jean Paul Getty
“Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.”
James Weldon Johnson
“Fortune rules life, not wisdom”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.”
Virgil
“We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country”
C.S. Lewis
“There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.”
Euripides
“Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.”
William Shakespeare
“For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.”
Boethius
“My pride fell with my fortunes.”
