Quotes with ill-fortune

Quotes 301 till 320 of 329.

• We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

  ― Jean de la Bruyère
  French writer (1645 - 1696)
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• We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.

  ― Bernard Sanders
   
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• Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

  ― Lord Melbourne
  British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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• Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

  ― Buddha
  Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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• When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

  ― Anthony Trollope
  British writer (1815 - 1882)
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• When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

  ― Sir John A. Macdonald
   
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• When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

  ― Billie Jean King
  American tennis player (1943 - )
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• When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

  ― Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

  ― Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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• Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

  ― Sophocles
  Greek poet (496 - 406)
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• Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

  ― Abraham Cowley
  English poet (1618 - 1667)
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• Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

  ― Herman Melville
  American author (1819 - 1891)
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• Wisdom overcomes fortune.

  ― Juvenal
  Roman poet
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• Words are soldiers of fortune
  Hired by different ideas.

  Source: Impulsive Dialogue

  ― Maxwell Bodenheim
  American writer (1892 - 1954)
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• Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

  ― Catherine Drinker Bowen
  American writer
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• You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals when I got there in 1995. Now they have more than 15. And they didn't cost the fortune some suggest.

  ― Bryan Robson
  English football manager and player (1957 - )
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• Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

  ― Eric Butterworth
  American minister, author, and radio personality
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• Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

  ― Alfred A. Montapert
  American writer
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• Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.

  ― William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

  ― Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-contained
• internationals
• professional
• allegories
• characters
• therefore

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