Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

“Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

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

“Man may chose to do good or evil, and to bring on himself fortune or misfortune.”
—Chinese proverb.