Quotes on the topic: Fortune


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Fortune, that favors fools.


You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals when I got there in 1995. Now they have more than 15. And they didn't cost the fortune some suggest.


The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.


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


By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.


A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.


A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.


The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.


He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.


Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.


Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.


Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.


I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.


Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.


It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.


I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.


If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.


Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.


Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.


I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.