Fortune Quotes - Page 30

• I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better.

  Sandra Bullock

  Done, Sequels, Good Fortune

  "QA: Melissa McCarthy sucks a peanut out of Sandra Bullock's nose in 'The Heat'". Interview with Ashley Dvorkin, www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2013.

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• I would always say to anyone, you make choices that are important to you. Don't allow yourself to be exploited by something as fleeting as fame and fortune. If you're presenting yourself in a way that important to you in communicating your vision, then so be it. No one should allow themselves to be exploited ever.

  Patti Smith

  Choices, Vision, Important

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.

  Claire Tomalin

  Children, Vulnerable, Hostage

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• A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

  George Lillo

  Real, Men, Light

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• Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Heart, Opportunity, Desire

  Frances Parkinson Keyes (1972). “All flags flying: reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Two, Wings, Giving

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• Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

  Frances Osborne

  Grease, Splendor, Made

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• If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family spirit has passed on its way to us, we should probably become fatalists in face of the apparently overwhelming evidence that there is nothing in us that has not come to us from, or at least through, the Family. Family portrait galleries are a striking confirmation of the persistence of characteristics which ultimately govern the fortunes of successive generations.

  Helen Bosanquet

  Persistence, Long, Parent

  Helen Bosanquet, Bernard Bosanquet (1996). “Helen and Bernard Bosanquet: Works on economics & social welfare: the philosophy of the state and the practice of welfare”

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• The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for each person an equivalent result.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Evil, Philosopher, Results

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.

  Marie Leszczynska

  Contentment, Virtue, Misfortunes

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• And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.

  D.B.C. Pierre

  Skins, Quality, Together

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

  Horace

  Wealth, Nameless, Insufficient

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• Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

  Horace

  Men, Wife, Credit

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• When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Children, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2389, Delphi Classics

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honor, Causes, Neighborhood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.305, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth,
  Near to the king in blood, and near in love
  Till you did make him misinterpret me--
  Have stooped my neck under your injuries
  And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds,
  Eating the bitter bread of banishment,
  Whilst you have fed upon my signories,
  Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods,
  From my own windows torn my household coat,
  Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign,
  Save men's opinions and my living blood,
  To show the world I am a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Blood

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.311, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
  That even our loves should with our fortunes change,
  For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
  Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Change, World

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.847

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• Live loath'd and long,
  Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
  Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
  You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies
  Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Time Flies, Knees

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, TIMON OF ATHENS. TITUS ANDRONICUS. MACBETH. C. MMARCIUS CORIOLANUS. VOLUME the EIGHTH”, p.59

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• Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
  Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
  Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight
  But where her humorous ladyship is by
  To teach thee safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Humorous, Fighting

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens. With a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c.[edited] by Alexander Chalmers”, p.231

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• Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Luxury, Sensual

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Journey to the Hebrides. Tales of the imagination. Prayers and sermons. Index”, p.309

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• If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

  Samuel Johnson

  Punishment, Adequate, Vices

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.267

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• A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Money, Firsts, Spending

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.39

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

  George Herbert

  World, Wheels, Ought

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.325

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• Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Men, Different, Cards

  Benvenuto Cellini (1956). “The Autobiography”

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• ... it was as if there were always some good fortune with me that would keep me from going hungry. I knew I would never die of hunger.

  Micaela Flores Amaya

  Hunger, Hungry, Dies

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