Quotes with fortune-telling

Quotes 181 till 200 of 325.

• Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

  Francis Quarles
  British poet (1592 - 1644)
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• Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

  Buddy Hackett
  American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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• No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

  Anita Brookner
  British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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• No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  English writer (1689 - 1762)
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• 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.

  Euripides
  Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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• No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.

  Hitopadesa
  Indian text in Sanskrit
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• Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

  Pamela Fanciulla, Act I, Scene 6

  Carlo Goldoni
  Italian playwright (1707 - 1793)
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• Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

  Titus Livy
  Roman historian (59 - 17)
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• Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

  Ovid
  Roman poet (43 - 17)
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• One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

  Charlotte Brontë
  British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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• One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

  Lew Wallace
  American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of (1827 - 1905)
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• One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

  Jean de la Bruyère
  French writer (1645 - 1696)
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• One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
  

  Robert A. Heinlein
  American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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• One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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• One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

  Lionel Strachey
   
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• Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

  Ayn Rand
  Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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• Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.

  Bonnie Hunt
  American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• responsibilities
• vicissitudes
• satisfaction
• contributes
• friendships
• second-rate

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