Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

“His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.”
—Henry Fielding (1707–1754)

“It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)

“For this present, hard
Is the fortune of the bard,
Born out of time;
All his accomplishment,
From Nature’s utmost treasure spent,
Booteth not him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)