Quotes with good-fortune

Quotes 721 till 740 of 2950.

• Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

  Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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• Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

  Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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• Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

  Horace
  Roman poet
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• Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

  Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• Fortune sides with him who dares.

  Virgil
  Roman poet (70 - 19)
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• Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

  John Webster
  English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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• Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• Four legs good, two legs bad.

  George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

  Mikhail Bakunin
  Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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• Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I leave to those that prize them. Hear me, 0 gracious God! At Thy good time let Death approach; I reck not, let him but come in genuine form, not with Thy vengeance armed, too much for man to bear.

  Beilby Porteus
  English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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• Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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• Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

  Eustace Budgell
   
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• Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul.

  Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.

  Ben Horowitz
  American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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• From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

  Sophie Tucker
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• acquaintances
• circumstance
• achievements
• inclination
• ventilation
• personality

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