Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

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

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

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.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

I believe in America. America's made my fortune.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.

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

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.