Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

“Hard is his lot, that here by Fortune plac’d,
Must watch the wild Vicissitudes of Taste;”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

“We are sensitive to good or ill fortune only in proportion to our self-love.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)