Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of… — Paul Sweeney Copy Share Image
...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction. — George Ade Copy Share Image
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain. — Horace Copy Share Image
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's… — Patrick Warburton Copy Share Image
I loved those movies from the eighties, movies like 'Working Girl,' 'Nine to Five,' 'Outrageous Fortune,' 'The Heat,' 'Bridesmaids,' 'Pitch Perfect,' and… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
I had the great good fortune of working with Christopher Plummer, Frances Sternhagen, and Arthur Hill early in my career, and it… — David Morse Copy Share Image
[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive And make of… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Whether you're an entrepreneur, a small business, or a Fortune 500 company, great marketing is all about telling your story in such… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
But if anyone were to conduct his life by reason He would find great riches in living a peaceful life And being… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake," Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists. — Ed Seykota Copy Share Image
There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow… — Anna Held Copy Share Image
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any. — John Harington Copy Share Image
A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.] — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
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