A tune is more lasting than the song of the birds, And a word more lasting than the wealth of the world. — Irish Proverb Copy Share Image
Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
My husband says, 'Roseanne, don't you think we ought to talk about our sexual problems?' Like I'm gonna turn off Wheel of… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion. — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I told Clinton I want him to rush for 2,000 yards. And I want our team to go to the Super Bowl… — Shaun Alexander Copy Share Image
One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick… — Patrick Warburton Copy Share Image
I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
“I don't trust good fortune that comes so easily. There is always a price to be paid, Frannie. Always." He gave her… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating their own chance opportunities, make lucky… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've interviewed the victims, the guilty, the famous, the important, and the ordinary people affected by tragedy or good… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes; nor would I be content with converting… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Not necessarily, naive as evertook offense to get a promotion / her even if fortune can become a wrestler — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that… — Dmitri Alperovitch Copy Share Image
The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Sure, nobody will make a fortune if we figure out why the Big Bang happened. But just about everyone would like to… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune. — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“Simple life is always good. Fortune should not be created on other's money.” — Ramesh Lohia Copy Share Image
There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
I think that I have a seriousness of purpose, a lot of support, and a healthy amount of good fortune. — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.] — Horace Copy Share Image