Lucky Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I feel like the traditional patron system meant that you would kiss the ass of one rich person and then hide all of the…

— Molly Crabapple

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A substantial good drawn from a real evil, is of the same benefit to society as if drawn from a virtue; and where men…

— Thomas Paine

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and…

— James Otis

But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that…

— George Washington

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground,…

— Samuel Johnson

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home,…

— Plutarch

“Fortunate, most fortunate occurrence!—fortunate for the millions of his manacled brethren, yet panting for deliverance from their awful thraldom!—fortunate for the cause of negro…

— William Lloyd Garrison

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger…

— Anonymous

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

— Plato

Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what…

— David Hume