The fortune-telling bloodsucker cant see us? Seriously? Thats excellent! — Jacob Black Copy Share Image
Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“He who has relied on Fortune less has maintained his position best.” — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Donald J. Trump has the good fortune of taking office as the economy is finally recovering from the 2008 crisis. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after. — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit. — Horace Copy Share Image
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him… — Horace Copy Share Image
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin… — D.B.C. Pierre Copy Share Image
Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial. The young people I meet want more freedom - to start firms,… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
If they gave me a fortune, My treasure would be small: I could lose it all tomorrow And never mind at all.… — Tom Springfield Copy Share Image
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Merv Griffin, who developed Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, had a great line once. I used to personally answer all the mail… — Alex Trebek Copy Share Image
It was quite unusual to use the recorder as a concert instrument. But my mother, a pianist, actually helped me a lot… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
