What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give,… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in… — Carmelo Anthony Copy Share Image
Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“certain kind of good fortune generally attends self-made men to the last. It is their children of the first, or first and… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a… — Plato Copy Share Image
In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Do you want a successful career or a close relationship with your family? Both! Do you want a focus on business or… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends,… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
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Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly… — Anne of Austria Copy Share Image
He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“...the third reason [for being nice to the underdogs in life] being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And… — Lauren Baratz-Logsted Copy Share Image
“True spiritual fame is the reward of those who stand when others fall, who speak truth when others stay silent, and who… — Henrietta Newton Martin, Author- The Greatest of All Romance- Your Potters Call Copy Share Image
Retarded kids are the best. When they ask for an autograph I just fake sign a picture and tell them that it's… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
The latest issue of GQ magazine, John Kerry talks about what a man should look for in a woman. GQ? If John… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived… — Patrick Duffy Copy Share Image
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library)… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to win a congressional fellowship to work on what I felt passionately about - the need for… — Katie McGinty Copy Share Image
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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