Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness… — Phyllis McGinley 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
Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better. — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands. — Theophile Gautier 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
Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery Copy Share Image
... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I would always say to anyone, you make choices that are important to you. Don't allow yourself to be exploited by something… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good… — Ed Thigpen Copy Share Image
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Don't listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, they'd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut.… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice. — Sallust Copy Share Image
All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, I would get printouts of what was being written about me that week. At first it was… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image