Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

Jamal Lewis

Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.

My good fortune was that I married her.

Dikembe Mutombo

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

Thomas Middleditch

I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson.

We were contacted by 'Wheel of Fortune' to see if we wanted to be part of the program.

Carlos Fuentes

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever

Herman Melville

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Conan O'Brien

At the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu opened a fortune cookie that said, 'You will lend us another trillion dollars.'

Karl Shapiro

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. Cervantes Every war has its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

We sailed pretty solidly all week and today as well. Fortunes are won and lost pretty easily, race-to-race in this game. The guys all stayed level and we approached each race as it came.

Publilius Syrus

A great fortune enslaves its owner.

Oliver Goldsmith

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

Honore de Balzac

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

Francis Bacon

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.

Benjamin Franklin

No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The shifts of fortune tests the reliability of friends

Confucius

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, "I shall today be uppermost

Henry David Thoreau

I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

Horace

Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

George Herbert

Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

Howard Gossage

If you have a lemon; make lemonade.

I feel like I won the lottery. This is just unbelievable good fortune to get to do this all in one year.

Jeffrey Gitomer

If you make a sale, you can earn a commission. If you make a friend, you can earn a fortune!

Mahatma Gandhi

What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune

Nigella Lawson

I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.

Lucretius

It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]

Mason Cooley

Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.

Mike Johnston

If our viewers were worried about one specific thing, ... it was where 'Jeopardy!' and 'Wheel of Fortune' were going to be.