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Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.
People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.
My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.
Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.
When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.
Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.
Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown.
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.
Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.
I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.
Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.
Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.
A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You’d make a fortune.
Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.
Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle!
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.
Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.
Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
If you make a sale, you can earn a commission. If you make a friend, you can earn a fortune!
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.
...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.
Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?