It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. – Petrarch
Fortune’s wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. – Maria Edgeworth
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. – Johann Georg Zimmermann
I’ve made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public. – Joanna Garcia
I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes. – Karen Duffy
So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else. – Jennifer Lee
The Federal Reserve system obviously doesn’t work anymore – they keep lowering the federal discount rate, and all that happens is that the banks are making a fortune, and the old folks’ CDs are getting chewed up. – Molly Ivins
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can… become very onerous indeed. – Robert W. Welch, Jr.
The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune. – O. Henry
I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side. – Robert Walpole
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. – Thomas Day