When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.] — Marie Jeanne Riccoboni Copy Share Image
Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes… — E. Joseph Cossman Copy Share Image
Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
That each day that you love, honor, and respect your own unique point of view, you're a step closer to finding a… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
