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Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

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

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

Good fortune has side effects.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

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

Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

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

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes of service.

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

I am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million.

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on Mad Max in Africa, so we became really fast friends.

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.

I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.

I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper.

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

If fortune torments me, hope contents me.

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

If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.

If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.

I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.