Quotes with ill-fortune

Quotes 281 till 300 of 329.

• To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

  Plautus
  Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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• To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• To be, or not to be; that is the question;
  Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
  The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
  Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
  And by opposing, end them.

  Hamlet

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

  W. M. Thackeray
  Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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• To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

  Harry A. Overstreet
  American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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• To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

  Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

  Bruce Feirstein
  American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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• To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

  Matthew Fox
   
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• Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

  Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability. We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

  Thomas Alva Edison
  American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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• Up on Housing Project Hill, it's either fortune or fame. You must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

  Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

  Bob Dylan
  American musician (1941 - )
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• War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

  Sir Walter Raleigh
  British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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• War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

  Joseph Rudyard Kipling
  English writer (1865 - 1936)
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• We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

  Jean de la Fontaine
  French writer (1621 - 1695)
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• We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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• We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

  Alain de Botton
  Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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• We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

  Jean de la Fontaine
  French writer (1621 - 1695)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• psychologically
• authoritarian
• personalities
• unfortunately
• opportunity
• preparation

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