Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If ignorance paid dividends most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics — Luther H Hodges Copy Share Image
When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy — Boethius Copy Share Image
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to amuse themselves… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of… — Plautus Copy Share Image
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune.… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must know that… — Henry Every Copy Share Image
Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill… — Stephen Harrigan Copy Share Image
“For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions, and the boldness of his… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune. — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
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