As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my… — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet. — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we… — Robert Ley Copy Share Image
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests… — Joachim du Bellay Copy Share Image
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after. — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've spent quite a bit of time in the DMV as a professional athlete as well as had the fortune of attending… — Mark Ingram II Copy Share Image
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