Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better. — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
Twitter... 140 character limit... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers. — E. A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity… — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes. — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“If someone figured out a way to bottle woman-been-wronged, they’d make a fortune.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes,… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
I have always believed, and still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the… — Euripides Copy Share Image
With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured… — Ronald Steel Copy Share Image
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly… — Marc Reisner Copy Share Image
Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable")… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Suppose he really is in love. What about her? She never has anything good to say about him.” “Yet she blushes whenever… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“The sign seemed like her fortune, her horoscope, her Magic 8 Ball answer.” — Melissa Senate Copy Share Image
Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
