Quotes with ill-fortune

Quotes 241 till 260 of 329.

• The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

  John Mortimer
  English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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• The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

  William Blake
  English poet (1757 - 1827)
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• The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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• The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

  Thomas à Kempis
  Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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• The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

  Harold Nicolson
  British writer, diplomat and politician (1886 - 1968)
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• The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

  Jean Paul Getty
  American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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• The man who does ill must suffer ill.

  Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.

  Bill Dedman
  American journalist (1960 - )
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• The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

  Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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• The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
  Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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• The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

  Stephen Leacock
  Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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• The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

  William Penn
  English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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• The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

  Sigmund Freud
  Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• well-publicized
• investigation
• expectations
• fellow-men
• difficulty
• reclusive

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