Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

“Good fortune then!
To make me blest or cursed’st among men.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Man may chose to do good or evil, and to bring on himself fortune or misfortune.”
—Chinese proverb.

“There was ... a large, shaggy dog, whose nose, report said, was full of porcupine quills. I can testify that he looked very sober. This is the usual fortune of pioneer dogs, for they have to face the brunt of the battle for their race.... When a generation or two have used up all their enemies’ darts, their successors lead a comparatively easy life. We owe to our fathers analogous blessings.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)