When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking. — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living. — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
“From a certain height, everyone looks the same - men, women, villains, kings - as if rank and fortune were simply an… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin' — Frank Costello Copy Share Image
I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society.… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I have such amazing memories [about The Hotel New Hampshire movie], because Tony Richardson was such an amazing director, and the subject… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about… — Ken Osmond Copy Share Image
As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know… — Pindar Copy Share Image
Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed favoritism of… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune,… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“Your fortune is yet doubtful: when I examined your face, one trait contradicted another. Chance has meted you a measure of happiness:… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“we cannot be proper Judges of the good or bad Fortune of Others;” — Sydney G. Fisher Copy Share Image