Quotes with ill-fortune

Quotes 201 till 220 of 329.

• 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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• 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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• No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike.

  Boyd Rice
  American musician (1956 - )
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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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• 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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• 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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• O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  English poet (1809 - 1892)
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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 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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• 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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• Our acts, our angels are, or good or ill, I our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

  John Fletcher
  English playwright (1579 - 1625)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• responsibilities
• vicissitudes
• satisfaction
• friendships
• performance
• ill-favored

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