Famous quotes containing the word fortune:
“Building up a familys fortune is like moving earth with a needle, but losing a familys fortune can be as swift as a boat rushing downstream with the current.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (17791848)
“The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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