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Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.


James Reston

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RUCKETT Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
ARISTOTLE In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
CHURTON COLLINS In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends
G.K. CHESTERTON In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say f...
KIN HUBBARD How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
WILLIAM HAZLITT In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity.
JOSEPH SMITH JR. Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
ARISTOTLE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCH Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity
PERIANDER Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
PERIANDER When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one is advers...
PLUTARCH Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is advers...
PLUTARCH I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for ...
KIN HUBBARD ...I've learned that doing what you think is right doesn't always make you feel good. For another, I...
ANN RINALDI Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes...
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
FRANCIS BACON, SR. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
FRANCIS BACON SR. A True education is an ornament in times of prosperity and it is a refuge in times of adversity. –...
ARISTOTLE Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in advers...
PLUTARCH What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes
FRANCIS BACON, SR. A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
SA'DI A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
ROSALIND RUSSELL A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity
MUSLIH-UDDIN SADI A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
SAADI Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
VICTOR HUGO Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
BILLY GRAHAM Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
BILLY GRAHAM I'm very pleased that we've been able to go through as much adversity as we have and still be able t...
DWIGHT GUNNARE Sometimes it is adversity which prepares concrete launching pad for success. If taken in stride, adv...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
SAADI Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
FRANCIS BACON, SR. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
FRANCIS BACON Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
CHILO Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains...
WILLIAM HAZLITT For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we belie...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
HORACE Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON, SR. Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them
PUBLILIUS SYRUS In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
JAMES BURGH In Prosperity, we forget God but in Adversity we know Him!
тαмιℓιαηρσηηυ Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Dwelling in the PAST is like jumping from a vertiginous height and landing on a bottomless pit… a ...
HEARTTOHEART THOUGHTS Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperit...
SOCRATES Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity,...
SOCRATES Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre...
ELVIS PRESLEY Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre...
THOMAS CARLYLE Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Now that's been our problem. Our problem has been when that happens to us, we haven't been able to g...
BOB KNIGHT Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
PLINY THE ELDER Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great
ROSE F. KENNEDY Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ...
NICHOLAS LING Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
ROSE KENNEDY As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
HORACE I think it's a journey that's been great. We've been tested in every single way imaginable, and I th...
KRISTIN KING You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God—truths we must...
JERRY BRIDGES Prosperity has many friends, even adversity has a few friends, but originality practicing the realit...
ANUJ SOMANY See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS When I don't know where to turn, You always draw me near; when I start to feel alone, I can feel You...
LISA MISCHELLE WOOD There is going to have to be austerity in the state of Kentucky.
MATT BEVIN Inner Strength is not only how you handle the adversity to come out unscratched ,it is also about ho...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE One of the biggest things we have to be able to do is to handle conflict and handle it correctly. We...
BENJAMIN WATSON It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirs...
JEREMY CORBYN Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
LACTANTIUS Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
LACTANTIUS FIRMIANUS Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
LACTANTIUS FIRMIANUS Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age
LACTANTIUS Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may ...
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CAMEO HICKS Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
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JAMES THURBER All are equal
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And...
JAMES SHIRLEY