One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home. — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them. — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line. — Mindy McCready Copy Share Image
“You know as well as I do that fortune never sends the best-case scenario our way You have way too much bad… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit. — James Caan Copy Share Image
One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the… — Anne Beatts Copy Share Image
“The journey is everything. Most necessary of all, but rarest good fortune, we should try to find some man of our own… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary… — Paul Gascoigne Copy Share Image
Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“...but I could see how hard it would be for him to imagine the rest of his life, and where it would… — Laura Kasischke Copy Share Image
Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign: The northern countries… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“It's not enough just to laugh at good fortune and say, 'Enough already.' You have to really mean it -- that you… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Has God decreed all things that come to pass? Then there is nothing that falls out by chance, nor are we to… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
It's true that the young who now flock to script writing, or producing and directing, to fulfill the demands of these new… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our… — James Atlas Copy Share Image
We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“It was all her fortune. It seemed to her very fine thus to throw it away.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image