Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The… — Menander Copy Share Image
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. — William Penn Copy Share Image
For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. — Socrates Copy Share Image
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just. — Boethius Copy Share Image
But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest,… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was… — Thomas Middleditch 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
Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your… — Stanley Ho Copy Share Image
A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and… — Jerry Della Femina Copy Share Image
If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store to buy gummy… — Dylan Lauren Copy Share Image
“What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about… — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
