“if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike” — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“What to do with you, lass. What to do with you. You will either get me killed or earn me a bloody… — M.L. Chesley Copy Share Image
The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film. — Jack O'Connell Copy Share Image
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children. — Demi Moore Copy Share Image
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune… — Mary Hart Copy Share Image
For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Tony [Touch] is like my big brother. He's somebody that I grew up listening to. I've had the fortune of befriending a… — Justin Smith Copy Share Image
It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at… — Eric Bristow Copy Share Image
Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse;… — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
No matter how much we enjoy following the lives of the rich and famous, we know the world is affected more deeply… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable")… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often… — Plato Copy Share Image
So many people work so hard, to achieve, attain, accumulate and cherish their fortunes. How many of us blissfully fill our days… — Barbara Rose Copy Share Image