Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

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

“Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.”
—Silius Italicus (26–101)

“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)