Their Fortunes Quotes
24 Their Fortunes quotes by 23 unique authors
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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
— David McCullough
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In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away…
— Thucydides
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The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with…
— Glen Cook
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More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions…
— Sebastiao Salgado
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I never could understand the popular belief that because a man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains. Some very rich…
— Julius Rosenwald
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There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.
— Garry Kasparov
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The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of a man who…
— Warren Buffett
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I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the…
— A S W Rosenbach
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Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused…
— Dale Carnegie
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I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making of special laws…
— Samuel J. Tilden
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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little,…
— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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So many people work so hard, to achieve, attain, accumulate and cherish their fortunes. How many of us blissfully fill our days and nights being…
— Barbara Rose
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The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who…
— Charles Churchill
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Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have…
— Marcus Garvey
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The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The…
— John Dryden
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What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had risked…
— Thomas Steinbeck
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Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.
— Chen Guangbiao
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This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this…
— William Kidd
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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes
— Francois La Rochefoucauld
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I have seen men hazard their fortunes, go on long journeys halfway around the world, forge friendships, even lie, cheat and steal, all for the…
— A S W Rosenbach
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Many people make their lives miserable simply because they forget their fortunes and blessings; but tenaciously remember all the unfortunate things happened to them from…
— T Joseph Benziger
Who Wrote These Their Fortunes Quotes
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