Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
You had my heart, and I yours; a heart for a heart, good fortune for good fortune. — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore Copy Share Image
Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I had to put the word out to people that I didn't cost a fortune, and I was prepared to work at… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
Let me know your faults and I will remind you of your strengths and gifts. Look at the world through skeptical eyes… — The Forgotten Copy Share Image
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third… — Amar Bose Copy Share Image
I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don't like to get… — Tony Curran Copy Share Image
When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to begin my legal career as a law clerk for a judge who really epitomized open-mindedness and… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, it’s the scary things in life that are the most worthwhile.” I told him. I’m pretty sure I’d read that in… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Captain Huston and myself have spent over $200,000 in strengthening the Yankees since we purchased the club. We paid $37,500 for Frank… — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image