Affair Quote by Croesus

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

— Herodotus

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for…

— Laurence Sterne

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at…

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their…

— John Calvin

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

— Alistair Cooke

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

— John Carroll

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

— Ihara Saikaku

The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside…

— Lloyd Alexander

Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

— George Eliot

There is a tide in the affairs of men

— William Shakespeare

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their…

— John Locke