The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. — Walter Raleigh 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
You think you’re a very clever fellow, don’t you?” Saldur challenged. “No, Your Grace,” Merrick replied. “Clever is the man who makes… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
- So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Blessed with fortune is the only way to describe my life. It’s like a big jigsaw puzzle, and I’m constantly looking for… — Ron McElroy Copy Share Image
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My back is full of metal; so are my hands and legs. I'll have to decide who will get all that in… — Guy Martin Copy Share Image
The cult of the omnipotent state has millions of followers in the united States. Americans of today view their government in the… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
“The god abandons Antony When at the hour of midnight an invisible choir is suddenly heard passing with exquisite music, with voices… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
In recent years, America's wealthiest man has begun to tackle energy issues in a major way, investing millions in everything from high-capacity… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step,… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I joined a very male-dominated profession back in 1986. I wanted to work with big multinational Fortune 500 companies, but you don't… — Cathy Engelbert Copy Share Image
Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“Fortune offers you opportunities to create; she does not hand you presents.” — Margaret George Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains… — Henry Home, Lord Kames 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
True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“You always invest the money you earn. That's the only way you can really speed up your fortune.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
I've always been lucky enough to have made the right decisions, if I can say that. I've always felt that I've had… — Olivier Giroud Copy Share Image
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him,… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
It is only when you look now and see success that you say that it was good fortune. It was not. We… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“I will despise whatever lies in the domain of Fortune, but if a choice is offered, I will choose the better half.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“People come to New York to find fame and fortune. I found both, so I left.” — Nancy Seligsohn Copy Share Image
