Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

“When the old man on the border lost his horse, who could know that it was good fortune in disguise?”
—Chinese proverb.

“You that choose not by the view,
Chance as fair, and choose as true:
Since this fortune falls to you,
Be content, and seek no new.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)