Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

“Good fortune lieth within bad, and bad fortune within good.”
—Lao-tzu.

“There was ... a large, shaggy dog, whose nose, report said, was full of porcupine quills. I can testify that he looked very sober. This is the usual fortune of pioneer dogs, for they have to face the brunt of the battle for their race.... When a generation or two have used up all their enemies’ darts, their successors lead a comparatively easy life. We owe to our fathers analogous blessings.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“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.)