Famous Quotes
554 Quotations with Fortune.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.
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- 42. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in someth ...
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, F ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, e ...
- 48. Oscar Wilde: Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
- 49. George Bernard Shaw: I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it ...
- 50. Walter Bagehot: A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
- 51. Fortune cookie: There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl.
- 52. Homer: I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, o ...
- 53. Hesiod: A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
- 54. Sophocles: Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
- 55. Aristotle: Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- 56. Terence: Fortune helps the brave.
- 57. Cicero: The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
- 58. Virgil: Fortune favors the brave.
- 59. Horace: Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day tha ...
- 60. Publilius Syrus: Never find your delight in another's misfortune.