Quotesdtb.com
Home
Authors
Quotes of the day
Top quotes
Topics
Fortune Quotes - page 3
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Ulysses S. Grant
When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
Publilius Syrus
A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.
Publilius Syrus
If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune for though she is blind, she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
Aeschylus
Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.
Tupac Shakur
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Sallust
Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.
Sophocles
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
Mark Twain
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli
By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
Barry Gibb
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
Suzanne Curchod
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.
Emmeline Pankhurst
No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
Patty Duke
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
Birch Bayh
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: "The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,” I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.
Antonin Scalia
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.
Robert A. Heinlein
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
William James
My first contact with game theory was a popular article in Fortune Magazine which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter and when I studied mathematics I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.
Reinhard Selten
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
François Rabelais
Previous
1
2
3
(Current)
4
...
43
Next