“Luck is a fickle creature. She loves many, but is faithful to none.” — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue. — David Mallet Copy Share Image
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the… — David Antin Copy Share Image
Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening. — Ammianus Marcellinus Copy Share Image
In the future, fortune could well favor those who didn't sell their good domain names too cheaply, or too boldly — Frank Schilling Copy Share Image
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than… — George Graham Vest Copy Share Image
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
If they gave me a fortune, My treasure would be small: I could lose it all tomorrow And never mind at all.… — Tom Springfield Copy Share Image
And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin… — D.B.C. Pierre Copy Share Image
“The rich, noisy city, fat with food and drink, is a spent thing; it's chief concern is its digestion and its little… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“All this for two bad lines he could’ve gotten out of a fortune cookie?” — Zoe Forward Copy Share Image
