Pastoral Resources

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.