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I watch 'Jeopardy!' every night and 'Wheel of Fortune' follows. And every time I'm like, 'Whoa, it's still on! This is still happening!'

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.

Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

Manners make often fortunes.

Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

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

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]

No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

None can hold fortune still and make it last.

Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who determine what is needed for the welfare of the whole universe, of which you are a part.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

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

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.

Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

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

One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.

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

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

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

People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.

Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.