“He who has relied on Fortune less has maintained his position best.” — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame. — Walter Wykes Copy Share Image
So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them! — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“For people like this life is just about stuff. Having more than your neighbor and never enough. For these types of folks… — Jacob M. Held 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
Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the… — Chris Sarandon Copy Share Image
Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Property in Provence can cost a fortune if you don't know where to look and a glass of champagne sipped on the… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune,… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Your fortune is yet doubtful: when I examined your face, one trait contradicted another. Chance has meted you a measure of happiness:… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market. — Jason Calacanis Copy Share Image
