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)

“Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)

“Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means—one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)