“When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“We don’t need eyes to judge people’s beauty; but unfortunately we judge them as we see.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married. — Anna Held Copy Share Image
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts. — Livy Copy Share Image
For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“I think in my old age I've come to realize just how precious everything is and I try to value the many… — Phil Hartman Copy Share Image
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Brandy Potter Copy Share Image
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
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