Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of… — Aesop Copy Share Image
My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it. — James Garner Copy Share Image
“Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit. — James Caan Copy Share Image
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line. — Mindy McCready Copy Share Image
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she… — John Dryden 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 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
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
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
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
I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“But confining myself more to the particular, I say that a prince may be seen happy to-day and ruined to-morrow without having… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
a great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor. Take Wal-Mart, our largest… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
A man who has been born into the house of a warrior and yet places no loyalty in his heart and thinks… — Torii Mototada Copy Share Image
“When events turn out so much better for a man than he has had reason to dread, is it not a proof… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I say to you with all the fervor of my soul that God intended men to be free. Rebellion against tyranny is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them… Think… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“You know as well as I do that fortune never sends the best-case scenario our way You have way too much bad… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them. — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The less you indulge yourself now, the more you can indulge yourself in the future, when you have made your fortune.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ideas doesn't make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Just as war is waged with the blood of others, fortunes are made with other people's money. — Andre Suares Copy Share Image
Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame. — Walter Wykes Copy Share Image
A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain. — Ovid Copy Share Image
So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
