A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
But evil fortune has decreed, (The foe of mice as well as men) The royal mouse at last should bleed, Should fall… — Michael Bruce Copy Share Image
So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance. — Robert Haugen Copy Share Image
“There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar” — Lisa M. Collins Copy Share Image
A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?] — Horace 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
Middle class people, the bourgeoisie, they are also feeling frightened at the moment. Some fear losing their fortunes; some go bankrupt; some… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I sold my soul to the devil. I'm going to hell. I'm headed to hell. I want the money, the women, the… — Eminem Copy Share Image
We do things on an exchange basis in the music business - it keeps the wheels turning. That's how I can get… — Ronnie Wood Copy Share Image
When I came into television, the serials were all women-centric, while the men had to stand around like furniture. I wasn't willing… — Ashish Sharma Copy Share Image
I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money.… — Jimmy Dean Copy Share Image
Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function -- free to think and work as we choose ... -- free… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Good sir, it is as much the part of great spirits to have patience when the world frowns upon them, as to… — Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Copy Share Image
You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Do not become the candle that gives light to others but itself remains in darkness. Do not follow the desires of your… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani Copy Share Image
The most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree; yet… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are… — David Gross Copy Share Image
Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat… — Horace Copy Share Image
“It cost nothing to think bigger than you are, BUT cost a fortune to think less of yourself.” — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
“Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“No one is satisfied with his fortune,and everyone is satisfied with his wit.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've had the fortune of playing very strong women, and I've been blessed to play characters that are capable and intelligent. — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth. — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
For those of us who have had the good fortune of a career in music, we feel an obligation to speak out… — John Popper Copy Share Image
Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune. — Peter Thomas Copy Share Image
Let us sit and mock the good huswife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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