Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. — Carlo Goldoni Copy Share Image
I know that I can cook well on a low budget so I can't really justify spending a fortune on food. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good… — Max Walker Copy Share Image
As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
“Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low. — Ovid Copy Share Image
My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image