You can’t have good fortune and doom simultaneously.
The wheel of fortune had started to turn, and this time he could not stop it.
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the power and the advantage of any private person. For the riches of any private person are wholly inadequate to meet such a call.
It never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
IN ORDER TO HAVE A CHANGE OF FORTUNE AT THE LAST MINUTE YOU HAVE TO TAKE YOUR FORTUNE TO THE LAST MINUTE.
If you desire to get on in the world, friends and acquaintances are by far the best passport to fortune.[Zum Vorwärtskommen in der Welt sind Freundschaften und Kamaraderien bei weitem das Hauptmittel.]
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
Fortune is a courtesan; though favorable yesterday, she may turn her back to-morrow.[La fortune est une courtisane : favorable hier, elle peut me trahir demain.]
A man was bound to make for himself, in the world, that fortune which Heaven had refused – him at his birth.[Un homme doit chercher à se faire sur la terre une fortune que Dieu lui a refusée en naissant.]
