Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
~By Epicurus ~
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 ~
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
~By Amy Lowell ~
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
~By Sophocles ~
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 ~
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
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 ~
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.
~By Thomas Willis ~
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
~By Aeschylus ~
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.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
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 ~
If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.
~By Sela Ward ~
Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
~By Eric Butterworth ~
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 ~
My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.
~By Claire Bloom ~
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
~By Owen Glendower ~
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
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 ~
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
~By Thomas Gray ~
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
~By Martin Lewis Perl ~
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
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 ~
As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.
~By Daniel Nathans ~
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
~By Frank Sinatra ~
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
~By Lew Wallace ~
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
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 ~
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
~By John Mortimer ~
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
~By Harry Browne ~
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
~By Voltaire ~
Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
~By E. Joseph Cossman ~
When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
~By Robert Southwell ~
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
~By Virgil ~
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 ~
I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
~By Leonard Maltin ~
I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.
~By Siobhan Fahey ~
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~
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 ~
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
~By George Farquhar ~
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.
~By Julius Streicher ~
It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I've had in having a giving and loving family.
~By James MacArthur ~
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 ~
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
~By Titus Livius ~
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
~By Paul Valery ~
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
~By Lord Acton ~
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
~By Virgil ~
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.
~By Peter Matthiessen ~
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
~By Petrarch ~
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
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 ~
I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.
~By Jim Cramer ~
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
~By Hesiod ~
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
~By Epictetus ~
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
My pride fell with my fortunes.
~By William Shakespeare ~
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~By William James ~
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
~By Tecumseh ~
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Fortune, that favors fools.
~By Ben Jonson ~
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 ~
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
~By Herman Melville ~
I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
~By William H. Wharton ~
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 Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?
~By William Kidd ~
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
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 ~
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
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 ~
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 ~
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
~By Marilyn French ~
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 ~
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
~By Charles Simmons ~
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
~By Walt Disney ~
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.
~By Phil Ochs ~
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
~By Miguel De Cervantes ~
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
~By Ulysses S. Grant ~
Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.
~By Jamal Lewis ~
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.
~By Luther H. Hodges ~
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 ~
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