I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.
~By Jimmy Dean ~
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
~By George Mason ~
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.
~By Pete Hamill ~
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
~By Francis Herbert Hedge ~
You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.
~By Donald Sutherland ~
Fortune favors the brave.
~By Terence ~
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
~By Thomas Francis Meagher ~
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.
~By Gideon Welles ~
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
~By Rufus Choate ~
How can you expect a man to be brave when he meets with nothing in life but misfortune?
~By Gregorio M. Sierra ~
President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them.
~By Robert Fisk ~
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
~By Paul Getty ~
I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
~By Anita Brookner ~
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.
~By Claire Bloom ~
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
~By Sophocles ~
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
~By Birch Bayh ~
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
~By Elias Canetti ~
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
~By Pierre Bayle ~
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
~By Saskya Pandita ~
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
~By Arthur E. Waite ~
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Fortune befriends the bold.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
~By Horace ~
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
~By Aeschylus ~
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
~By Walther Bothe ~
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.
~By Jim Hightower ~
My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.
~By Johnny Isakson ~
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.
~By David Friedman ~
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~By William James ~
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
~By David Mallet ~
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
~By Francis Bacon ~
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
~By William McFee ~
A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
~By Denis Waitley ~
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
~By Bert Williams ~
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
~By Douglas William Jerrold ~
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
~By A. C. Benson ~
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
~By Amelia Barr ~
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
~By John Greenleaf Whittier ~
Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through.
~By Paul Gascoigne ~
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
~By Joseph Addison ~
You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
~By Patrick Warburton ~
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
~By Voltaire ~
From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.
~By Ernest Lawrence ~
If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.
~By Sela Ward ~
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.
~By Michael Apted ~
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
~By Sophocles ~
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
~By Thomas Day ~
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
~By Hesiod ~
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
~By Richard Whately ~
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
~By Simone Weil ~
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
~By Tacitus ~
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.
~By David Ogilvy ~
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
~By Lionel Barrymore ~
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
~By Jane Austen ~
When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.
~By Joe Pantoliano ~
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
~By James F. Cooper ~
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
~By Ovid ~
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
~By Bodhidharma ~
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
~By Titus Livius ~
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.
~By Arthur Baker ~
It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
~By Billie Jean King ~
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
~By John Dryden ~
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
~By Harry Browne ~
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
~By Euripides ~
Misfortune was my god.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
~By Petrarch ~
What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
~By Aesop ~
My pride fell with my fortunes.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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