Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

“Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“Good fortune then!
To make me blest or cursed’st among men.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)