Quotes with good-fortune

Quotes 2001 till 2020 of 2950.

  • Barry Cornwall Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Samuel Johnson Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William S. Burroughs So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • T. S. Eliot So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Lord George Byron So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Aristotle So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bruce Springsteen So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road...
    The Rising (2002) Further On (Up the Road)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Mao Tse-Tung So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Stephen Hawking So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
    Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Boethius So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Bob Inglis So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
    Bob Inglis
    American politician (1959 - )
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  • Brene Brown Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Park Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Beth Ditto Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can take any of your old makeup containers into its shops, and the sweetest deal is that, once you've racked up six containers, you get a free lipstick or lip gloss.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Billie Holiday Some men like me talkin' happy
    Some calls it snappy
    Some call me honey
    Others think I got money
    Some tell me baby you're built for speed
    Now if you put that all together
    Makes me everything a good man needs.
    Billies Blues
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Augustus William Hare Some men treat the God of their fathers as they treat their father's friend. They do not deny him; by no means: they only deny themselves to him, when he is good enough to call upon them.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Harry S. Truman Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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