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

Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.

Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'

How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.

Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.

Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

I left school when I was 14 to go into Danish films. When I was 17, I went to Paris to make my fortune.

I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

I had come to New York seeking my fortune after a few years of honing my craft as a stand-up on the road.

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