Quotes with ill-fortune

Quotes 61 till 80 of 329.

• Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill living.

  Jeremy Collier
  English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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• Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

  Honoré de Balzac
  French writer (1799 - 1850)
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• Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

  Sir Walter Raleigh
  British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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• Books and marriage go ill together.

  Molière
  French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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• But when mischief mortals bend their will,
  How soon they find fit instruments of ill!

  Rape of the Lock (1712) Canto III, 125

  Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

  Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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• Cynicism is humor in ill health.

  H.G. Wells
  British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• Disparity in age seems a greater obstacle to an intimate friendship than inequality of fortune.

  Jeremy Collier
  English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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• Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

  E. Joseph Cossman
  American author
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• Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

  Virgil
  Roman poet (70 - 19)
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• Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means - one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

  Truman Capote
  American writer (1924 - 1984)
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• Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

  Arthur Helps
  English writer and dean
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• Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

  Francis Herbert Hedge
  British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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• Every man is the maker of his own fortune.

  Sir Richard Steele
  British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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• Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

  Francis Quarles
  British poet (1592 - 1644)
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• For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

  Boethius
  Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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• For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.

  De Consolatione Philosophia Book 2, prose 4

  Boethius
  Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• delinquencies
• jurisprudence
• participants
• interminably
• possibility
• unfortunate

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