Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

“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.)

“My grandmother stood among her kettles and ladles.
Smiling, in faulty grammar,
She praised my fortune and urged my lofty career.
So to please her I studied—but I will remember always
How she poured confusion out, how she cooled and labeled
All the wild sauces of the brimming year.”
—Mary Oliver (b. 1935)

“All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and ... you don’t win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)