The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. — Carlo Goldoni Copy Share Image
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat. — Julius Caesar 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
You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You’d make a fortune. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae… — Quintus Curtius Rufus Copy Share Image
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, but our wheel is purposeless. It doesn't… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
“In 1918, a Chinese immigrant working in a Los Angeles noodle factory invented the fortune cookie. He did so believing that a… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The latest issue of GQ magazine, John Kerry talks about what a man should look for in a woman. GQ? If John… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Retarded kids are the best. When they ask for an autograph I just fake sign a picture and tell them that it's… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
“True spiritual fame is the reward of those who stand when others fall, who speak truth when others stay silent, and who… — Henrietta Newton Martin, Author- The Greatest of All Romance- Your Potters Call Copy Share Image
“...the third reason [for being nice to the underdogs in life] being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And… — Lauren Baratz-Logsted Copy Share Image
“When I went into the business, I sat down and figured that I was indeed one of fortune's children. Just think. There… — Frank Mayer Copy Share Image
“Isn’t this what happens in the movies a lot? There’s some old dude or woman who tells your fortune and is all,… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
For a while, all the studios had their art-house divisions, but that went by the by pretty quickly. Now, they're really focusing… — Peter Bogdanovich Copy Share Image
There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Very slowly, she peeked around the tree trunk. Saw a slim, petite figure, flanked by two very large, very dangerous-looking soldier of… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other… — Héloïse Copy Share Image