What is to become of an independent statesman, one who will bow the knee to no idol, who will worship nothing as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue… — Erasmus Darwin 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
Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Mom-and-pop businesses have the same issues as the Fortune 500. The difference is that big companies spend millions on consultants to fix them. — Christopher Myers Copy Share Image
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for… — Plato Copy Share Image
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
