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

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own 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.

Truth is no road to fortune.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

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

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

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

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.

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

We need to create brand institutions. In the fortune 500 companies, 5 Indian companies are named while 15 are from China though we have similar kind of populations.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

Wheel of Fortune was an important SAT prep for me.

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

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