You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is 'Wheel Of Fortune' because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.
It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
If you ever have the good fortune to meet Tippi Hedren, she's an amazing woman. You can't quite believe she is the age she is.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Don't listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, they'd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.
Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling them that only a few scientists are granted the great fortune to pursue topics that are so new and different that only a small number of people can grasp the meaning of such discoveries initially.
When I came into television, the serials were all women-centric, while the men had to stand around like furniture. I wasn't willing to be a prop in serials. To my good fortune, I got serials where I was a central character.
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
