Fortune Quotes - Page 7

• Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Wise, Humor

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 8, 1595.

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• Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

  John Ruskin

  Land, Taxation, Literature

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• The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
  We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

  Torquato Tasso

  Corn On The Cob, Busy, Corny

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Act IV, scene IV, line 63, 1790.

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• There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Laughter, Twilight, Humor

  "The New World and the New Book, an Address, Delivered Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York City, Jan. 15, 1891".

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• Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Nature

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• Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

  Torquato Tasso

  Doors, Accompany

  "'Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia' ('The Art of Worldly Wisdom')". Book by Baltasar Gracian, translated by Joseph Jacobs. Maxim No. 59, 2010.

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• Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

  Publilius Syrus

  Glasses, Broken, Glitter

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 280,

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• Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

  Sophocles

  Motivational, Work, Aids

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• Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

  Seneca the Younger

  Height, Casts, Raised

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Fickle, Juliet

  1595 Juliet. Romeo andJuliet, act 3, sc.5, l.60.

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• Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

  Aulus Gellius

  Cups, Lips, Happens

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Translation of Greek Proverb, Book XIII. 17. 3, 1922.

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• When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Eye, Men

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.116

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• Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Common Sense, Utterance

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.90, University of Georgia Press

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• Fortune befriends the bold.

  Emily Dickinson

  Confidence, Courage, Determination

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• Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Men, Gambling

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• Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Good Fortune

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• It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum", LIX, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 289-93,

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• Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Time, Educational, Long

  Douglas William Jerrold (1863). “The Works of Douglas Jerrold”

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• If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

  Horace

  Men, Shoes, Stories

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, c. 20 BC and 14 BC.

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• If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Favors, Ifs

  "Septem Sapientium Sententiae Septenis Versibus Explicatae". IV. 6,

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• Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Mean, Affair, Destruction

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, In Rufinum, II, 49., 1922.

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• Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

  Ammianus Marcellinus

  May, Evening, Wheels

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Historia, XXVI. 8, 1922.

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• It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

  John Dryden

  Mistress, Events, Madness

  "The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author".

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• He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Destiny

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

  J. Paul Getty

  Business, Work, Men

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