Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trees in winter lose their leaves. Some trees may even fall during storms, but most stand patiently and bear their fortune. — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. — Charles V Copy Share Image
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I spoil all my three sisters. I buy them bags and other stuff that cost a fortune because they won't settle for… — Zayed Khan Copy Share Image
“Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working… — Joe Pantoliano Copy Share Image
“No matter how much fame you get, no matter how much money you make, no matter how much admiration you get, nothing… — Zack W. Van Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the acting trade you are offered nothing to work like a dog, while at other times you get a fortune… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle… — Ovid Copy Share Image
(Adron leveled a scowl that made him shrink back.) Jeeze, you ought to bottle that look. I know armies that would pay… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential - and… — Laurent Lamothe Copy Share Image
I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and… — Rob Paulsen Copy Share Image
Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Many people make their lives miserable simply because they forget their fortunes and blessings; but tenaciously remember all the unfortunate things happened… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
“Each time you make a good decision or do something nice or take care of yourself; each time you show up to… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I said some crazy shit to her like: 'what if you and I were just letters?' That be unfortunate we'd have to… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is… — Benny Hill Copy Share Image
Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes. — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on 'Mad Max' in Africa, so we became really fast friends. — Josh Helman Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image