When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking. — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
I didn't care about fame or fortune, big house, fancy career, nice car - none of that has ever been important to… — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well. — Alec Wilkinson Copy Share Image
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
You will be tested as a leader…You may be tested with success, fame, and fortune. — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius. — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Fortune was a heartless witch in perpetual anticipation of her monthly courses.” — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Obviously this stuff takes a bit of planning, but I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Captain Huston and myself have spent over $200,000 in strengthening the Yankees since we purchased the club. We paid $37,500 for Frank… — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“we cannot be proper Judges of the good or bad Fortune of Others;” — Sydney G. Fisher Copy Share Image
“The sign seemed like her fortune, her horoscope, her Magic 8 Ball answer.” — Melissa Senate Copy Share Image