Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

“Will Fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest terms?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The screen of supreme good fortune curved his absolute smile into a celestial scream.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“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] (1835–1910)