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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.

There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

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

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

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

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Truth is no road to fortune.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.