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
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge… — Horace Copy Share Image
Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this:… — Jim Rohn 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 we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes,… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most… — Boethius Copy Share Image
It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom… — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
[With] closet indexing....you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies:… — Walter O'Brien Copy Share Image
I left school when I was 14 to go into Danish films. When I was 17, I went to Paris to make my fortune. — Anna Karina Copy Share Image
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war. — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune.… — Joseph Addison 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
Just as war is waged with the blood of others, fortunes are made with other people's money. — Andre Suares Copy Share Image
I've had the fortune of playing very strong women, and I've been blessed to play characters that are capable and intelligent. — Simone Missick Copy Share Image