The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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 ~
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
~By Francis Bacon ~
There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.
~By Dante Hall ~
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
~By Marcus Valerius Martial ~
She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's.
~By Colleen McCullough ~
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
~By Marilyn French ~
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
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 less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
~By Sallust ~
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
~By Sallust ~
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
~By Horace ~
How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
~By Sophocles ~
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
~By Francis Bacon ~
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 ~
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
~By Jane Austen ~
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
~By Voltaire ~
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
~By John Dryden ~
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 ~
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
~By Aeschylus ~
The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.
~By Henry James Sumner Maine ~
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
~By Charles Simmons ~
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
~By J. Paul Getty ~
Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
~By Barry Pepper ~
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
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 ~
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
~By William Shakespeare ~
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
~By Euripides ~
Fortune, that favors fools.
~By Ben Jonson ~
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 ~
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
~By Lord Byron ~
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 ~
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 ~
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
~By Aesop ~
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
~By William Shakespeare ~
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
~By Richard Whately ~
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
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 ~
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 ~
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
~By Titus Livius ~
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
~By Aesop ~
Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
~By Eric Butterworth ~
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.
~By Sarah McLachlan ~
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
~By Gabriela Mistral ~
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
~By William Dampier ~
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
~By Edith Wharton ~
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
~By Horace ~
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
~By Paul Getty ~
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
~By John Ruskin ~
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
~By Jim Rohn ~
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Fortune and love favor the brave.
~By Ovid ~
Fortune favors the audacious.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
~By John Webster ~
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
~By Silius Italicus ~
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
~By Sophocles ~
The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.
~By James Tobin ~
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 ~
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, and the little great.
~By Johann Georg Zimmermann ~
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
~By Petrarch ~
I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.
~By Jim Cramer ~
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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 ~
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
~By Anita Baker ~
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 ~
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
~By Thomas W. Higginson ~
When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.
~By Anna Held ~
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
~By Rachel Field ~
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
~By Adam Baldwin ~
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