Fortune Quotes - Page 33

• One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.

  Michael Parenti

  Children, Dirty, Thug

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• Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

  Belle Boyd

  Tricks

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• Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

  Irving Stone

  Cows, Beastly, Businessman

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• But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we're all part of a greater story too. One that transcends the soil, the wind, time even our own tears. Greater stories will have their way.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Children, Destiny, Wind

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• Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
  So shalt thou live beyond the reach
  Of adverse Fortune's pow'r;
  Not always tempt the distant deep,
  Nor always timorously creep
  Along the treach'rous shore.

  Horace

  Truth, Moderation, Creeps

  Horace, D. S. Carne-Ross, Kenneth Haynes (1996). “Horace in English”, Penguin Group USA

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• High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Views, Light, Vices

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• Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

  Francois Rabelais

  Philosophical, Hazards, Spirit

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• All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.

  Francois Rabelais

  Humility, Long, Lasts

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• One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

  Francois Rabelais

  Good Luck, Upset, Hazards

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• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Age, Youth, Young

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• You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Disappear Completely, Hatred

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• If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heart, Yield, Self

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• There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.

  Publilius Syrus

  Complaining

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• Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Doors, Remedy, Miscellaneous

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.83, Wordsworth Editions

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• For this present, hard
  Is the fortune of the bard,
  Born out of time;
  All his accomplishment,
  From Nature's utmost treasure spent,
  Booteth not him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Accomplishment, Poetry, Treasure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Behind every fortune there is a crime.

  Honore de Balzac

  Crime, Behinds

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• So they, who climb to wealth, forget
  The friends in darker fortunes tried.
  I copied them--but I regret
  That I should ape the ways of pride.

  William C. Bryant

  Regret, Pride, Way

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Yellow Violet”

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• It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Race, People

  Woodrow Wilson (1918). “State Papers and Addresses”

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• If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Music, Country, Passion

  Thomas Jefferson, Merrill D. Peterson, United States. President (1801-1809 : Jefferson) (1975). “The portable Thomas Jefferson”, Viking Adult

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• I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Passion, May

  Thomas Jefferson, Barbara B. Oberg (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 29: 1 March 1796 to 31 December 1797”, p.424, Princeton University Press

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• While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Men, France

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen (1958). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: March 1789 to 30 November 1789”

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• It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Work, Youth, Habit

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Life Is

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• Honesty, by evil fortune tried,
  Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

  Ovid

  Honesty, Adversity, Evil

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• Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune,
  That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

  Ovid

  Virtue

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