I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass. — William Blake Copy Share Image
There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost. — Confucius Copy Share Image
You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You’d make a fortune. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me. — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Trust me, if you want to complain, you’ll always find plenty to complain about, even when fortune appears to be shining her… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. — Horace Copy Share Image
I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in… — Carmelo Anthony Copy Share Image
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,… — Fanny Kemble 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]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Day, night, late, early, At home, abroad, alone, in company, Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been To have her match'd;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When a jealous person sees signs of other people's success and good fortune, his heart is pierced with envy. But someone who… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty.… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune. — David Pleat Copy Share Image
I'd like to have the fortune, but I don't care too much about the fame. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
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