The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike” — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just. — Boethius Copy Share Image
“That might not seem like much to some, but when you have nothing, anything seems like a fortune.” — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Boy: Do you love me just because my father left me money and fortune? Girl: No stupid, I would love you no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost… — Shelley Berman Copy Share Image
If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood.… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
Which is more worthwhile earning: a large fortune or the esteem and gratitude of the nation? This question is prompted anew by… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Thus does good fortune follow on the steps of the reckless. If” — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to call George Steinbrenner both partner and friend. — John W. Henry Copy Share Image
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
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