Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

    Good fortune lieth within bad, and bad fortune within good.
    Lao-tzu.

    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 (1803–1882)

    In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
    Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)