Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

“It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“I thank my fortune for it,
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,
Nor to one place.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Cease to ask what the morrow will hold and count as gain each day that Fortune grants.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)