fortune

We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.

Faith is a fortune.

Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.

It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both.

I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman__ noose.

Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.

Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains.

Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

She couldn__ help but wonder at the events of recent days, and at how__ven in the face of such misfortune, there was so much good,

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard. You may die before you turn the next page.

Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. Continuous luck is always suspect; more secure is that which changes. Though half bitter and half sweet, it is more satisfying to the taste. The more luck pyramids, the greater the danger of slip and collapse. For luck always compensates her intensity by her brevity. Fortune wearies of carrying anyone long upon her shoulders.

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don__ want to be in his line of sight when he does.

It's bad luck not to believe in luck.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth