Quotes with ill-fortune

Quotes 261 till 280 of 329.

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, ''I shall today be uppermost.''

  Confucius
  Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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• The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

  Amelia Earhart
  American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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• The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.

  Bethany McLean
  American journalist (1970 - )
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• There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.

  Jane Austen
  English writer (1775 - 1817)
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• There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

  Jules Renard
  French writer (1864 - 1910)
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• There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

  Sir William Temple
  British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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• There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

  Charles De Montesquieu
  French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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• There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

  James Truslow Adams
  American writer and historian (1878 - 1949)
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• There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

  Abraham Cowley
  English poet (1618 - 1667)
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• There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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• Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• They say my verse is sad: no wonder.
  Its narrow measure spans
  Rue for eternity, and sorrow
  Not mine, but man's.
  
  This is for all ill-treated fellows
  Unborn and unbegot,
  For them to read when they're in trouble
  And I am not.

  More Poems (1936)

  A. E. Housman
  British poet (1859 - 1936)
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• This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

  Amelia E. Barr
  British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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• This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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• Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• distinguishes
• imperceptibly
• possibility
• attentively
• discoverers
• ill-treated

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