| Author |
Quotes |
| Aeschylus | To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals. |
| Appius Claudius | Every individual is the architect of his own fortune. |
| Aulus Gellius | Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. |
| Benjamin Franklin | He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. |
| Benjamin Rush | A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts. |
| Bible | The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. |
| Charles V | Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. |
| Chinese Proverb | A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence. |
| Claudian | Fortune favors the brave. |
| Claudian | Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. |
| Decimus Magnus Ausonius | If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. |
| Douglas Jerrold | Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. |
| Edward Gibbon | Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. |
| Elizabeth I | Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway, Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay. |
| Euripides | Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment. |
| Filipino Proverb | Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven. |
| Horace | Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. |
| Hunt Brothers | Deals under a hundred mil are for shoe clerks. |
| James Russell Lowell | Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. |
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