Fortune Quotes

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. ”

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ”

“The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune”

“You can't blame gravity for falling in love”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”

“There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them”

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance”

“But to us, probability is the very guide of life”

“There are no shortcuts in evolution”

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn”

“Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter”

“The world and its way have a certain worth”

“We mortals cross the ocean of this world each in his average cabin of a life”

“The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes”

“It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.”

“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act”

“A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it”

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

“My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it”

“The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have”