fortune

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Fortune favors the audacious.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.

It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.