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the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Quotations regarding 'Fortune'
When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
Robert Southwell, English Clergyman
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer (1850-1894)
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer (1850-1894)
When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.
Julius Streicher, Soldier (1885-1946)
You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.
Donald Sutherland, Canadian Actor (1935- )
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Paul Sweeney, -
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer (1667-1745)
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
Wislawa Szymborska, Polish Poet (1923- )
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
Torquato Tasso, Italiian Poet (1544-1595)
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Torquato Tasso, Italiian Poet (1544-1595)
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
Torquato Tasso, Italiian Poet (1544-1595)
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
Jeremy Taylor, British Clergyman
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Tecumseh, American Leader
Fortune favors the brave.
Terence, Roman Writer
Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.
John Tesh, American Musician (1952- )
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist (1811-1863)
The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.
James Tobin, American Economist (1918-2002)
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
Anthony Trollope, English Author (1815-1882)
That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
Mike Tyson, American Athlete (1966- )
