“if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike” — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
Fame and fortune and the interstate is great and fun, but it ain't life. — Tracy Lawrence Copy Share Image
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does. — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune. — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery Copy Share Image
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
I have had some good fortune in the world of television. I have had it late in life after many youthful struggles… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“Some of us know how we came by our fortune, and some of us don't, but we wear it all the same.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. A successful business owner never stops learning. They educate… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
