Quotes with good-fortune

Quotes 1761 till 1780 of 2950.

• Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

  Socrates
  Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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• Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

  Titus Livy
  Roman historian (59 - 17)
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• Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

  George M. Adams
  American newspaper columnist (1878 - 1962)
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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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• Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

  Roger Staubach
   
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• Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

  American Pastoral (1997)

  Philip Roth
  American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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• Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

  Bjornstjerne Bjornson
  Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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• Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

  Andy Rooney
  American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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• Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ''

  Pearl S. Buck
  American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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• Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

  Honoré de Balzac
  French writer (1799 - 1850)
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• Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

  Alvar Aalto
  Finnish architect and designer (1898 - 1976)
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• Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

  Friedrich von Schiller
  German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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• Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.

  Barbara Rosenblat
  British actress (1950 - )
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• Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

  Ernst Moritz Arndt
  German nationalist historian, writer, and poet (1769 - 1860)
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• Now ain't it good to know
  That you've got a friend
  When People can be so cold.
  They'll hurt you, kiss and desert you.
  And take your soul if you let them.
  Oh, but don't you let them.

  Tapestry (1971) Youve Got a Friend

  Carole King
  American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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• Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

  Guillaume Apollinaire
  Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• encouragement
• entertainment
• possibilities
• architecture
• conscience
• impediment

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