F Quotes
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“Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Fortune-teller tea. Give it a sip!"
The liquid was pink and smelled of strawberries, but when Maddie drank it, the flavor was deep and a little bitter, followed by a sudden burst of sweetness.
Her father returned. "Well?" he asked.
"It started out as black licorice and then melted into butterscotch," she said.
"Oh, my girl, the tea is telling you that this is the year to keep your ear to the ground and listen for surprises. Change is coming!"
Maddie's stomach was full of thoughts and her head full of butterflies. She checked her watch again.
She couldn't wait for it all to begin.”
Source: Once Upon a Time: A Story Collection
“Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off.
So do fundamentalists.”
“Fortune-telling that employs psychokinesis [such as table tilting and ouija boards] is very unreliable. The movements of the table or the apparent accuracy of the messages spelt out on the ouija board can be very convincing. Spiritual forces can work through these techniques [...] but the sitter's inner fears and hopes can influence the 'communication'.”
Source: Your Psychic Powers: A Beginner's Guide
“Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes
“Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.”
“Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.”
“Fortune was an invisible, unconquerable creature that ruled commonfolk and noble alike.”
Source: The Shadow of Kyoshi
“Fortune without love is sheer curse.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Fortune Without Love (The Sonnet)
Fortune without love is sheer curse,
For life's true blessing is love alone.
Live to love and love to live,
With this as motto all good is honed.
They say you can't live on love alone,
And indeed it's true to its factual core.
But green of dollar without green of heart,
Grows on us like toxic mold.
Too much of dollar can kill a person,
Just like too little causes starvation.
Use money like you use your car,
To go places, not to live at the gas station.
Put love and life above all else.
You'll know what's sense, what's nonsense.”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.”
“Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.”
Source: The works of John Dryden, with notes and a life of the author by sir W. Scott
“Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.”
Source: Works
“Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.”
Source: The White Princess
“Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.”
“Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.”
“Fortune, honour, beauty, youth,
Are but blossoms dying;
Wanton pleasures, doting love,
Are but shadows flying.”
Source: Ancient critical essays upon English poets and poesy
“Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.”
“Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.”
“Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.”
“Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.”
“Fortune, that favors fools.”
“Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.”
“Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.”
Source: The Works of Ben. Jonson: Poetaster; or, His arraignm[e]nt. Sejanus his fall. Volpone; or, The fox. Epicoene; or, The silent woman
“Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.”
“Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.”
“Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.”
“Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.”
“Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.”
“Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state--
Though poor myself, I know the fortunate:
First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence
Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense:
Then perseverance, never to decline
The chase of riches till the prey is thine;
And firmness never to be drawn away
By any passion from that noble prey--
By love, ambition, study, travel, fame,
Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume
“Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition
“Fortunes live in the follow-up—return with genuine care, and prospects become lifelong partners.”
“Fortunes mean nothing without knowing the lives they forever changed.”
Source: Lost in Rewind
“Forty eight hours of self pity became my new mantra.”
“Forty-five minutes later, Troy and Hannah returned with a speeding ticket, a pan of fresh salmon, one black truffle, three tins of caviar, a covered box of mushrooms, and twelve filet mignons that had originally been intended to be served with a spicy Gorgonzola sauce of shiitake mushrooms and chipotle chilies. That sauce now coated a good portion of the highway.
"Start slicing the beef," ordered Carmen, "and make it paper thin. We're going to wrap it around the green onions we already have here, and God help me, we're going to make it stretch."
The salmon was quickly thrown into the Aga to bake, then drizzled with a vanilla-infused vegetable oil and sprinkled with roe.
"We're going to run out of plates," said Oliver.
"Good thing I saw more potatoes in the pantry," said Carmen. "We'll make smaller galettes, and use them as though they were plates."
"What do you want me to do with the mushrooms?" Troy was rubbing each mushroom with a clean soft cloth, as Oliver had instructed him.
"Get them started in a pan with a little olive oil, and we'll brown them with some of our fresh garlic and the thyme from Gus's garden," said Carmen. "We'll finish them with a few drops of sherry. Hannah!"
Hannah waited for her marching orders.
"Find those oranges I saw you pigging out on earlier, and bring them to the stovetop."
"And then what?" said Hannah.
"Then it's time for you to cook," said Carmen. "You're going to create a syrup from red wine, a little zest, cinnamon, and sugar, and let it simmer for a half hour. We'll cool it in an ice bath and drench the oranges.”
Source: Comfort Food
“Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.”
“Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal citizen of the United States.They believe his presidency is unconstitutional.”
“Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.”
“Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess.”
“Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.”
Source: At Large
“Forty is a fat fort.”
Source: Plotless
“Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.”
“Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.”
“Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.”
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”
“Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn’t like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton.”