Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and… — John Denver Copy Share Image
The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower. — John A. Macdonald Copy Share Image
I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than… — George Graham Vest Copy Share Image
Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial. The young people I meet want more freedom - to start firms,… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin… — D.B.C. Pierre Copy Share Image
If they gave me a fortune, My treasure would be small: I could lose it all tomorrow And never mind at all.… — Tom Springfield Copy Share Image
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“I think in my old age I've come to realize just how precious everything is and I try to value the many… — Phil Hartman Copy Share Image
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
See, see how the sun has moved onward while we talked. Nothing can stop it in its course. Prayers cannot halt the… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the… — George Soros 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
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I really have the good fortune that the actors who work with me on 'The Leftovers' are thoughtful, hard working, open people… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
A man's ego may swell with fortune but so does his pride which usually comes before a fall. — Mak_786 Correction By Jacobusmaximus Copy Share Image
May every man is not the architect of his own fortune; but every man is the architect of his own character. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all. — Propertius Copy Share Image
A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills. — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades. — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
