Famous quotes containing the word fortune:
“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long as there is ink and paper in the world? I cannot keep a record of my life by my actions; fortune places them too low. I keep it by my thoughts.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and ... you dont win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)
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