O fortune, fortune! All men call thee fickle.
William Shakespeare
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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
MARILYN FRENCH There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; ...
FORTUNE Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
SENECA The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great amb...
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
TITUS LIVY Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
SUZANNE NECKER Good fortune and evil fortune come to all things alike in this world of time.
MOASI The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
LIVY Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.
SOURCE UNKNOWN O blithe New-comer! I have heard,
I hear thee and rejoice;
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QUINTILIAN There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
SOPHOCLES Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?
NICOLE RICHIE Fortune is no real thing.
But men who cannot bear what comes to them
In Nature's way, give the...
MENANDER The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.
J. S. BRYAN O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird,Or but a wandering voice?
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH If fortune smiles, who doesn't? If fortune doesn't, who does?
CHINESE PROVERB Fortune love you.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fortune cookie: You'll have a better fortune in the next cookie.
ANONYMOUS Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
WALT WHITMAN Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
FRANCIS BACON Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
BEN JONSON is tying your fortune to the fortune of the housing market.
MICHAEL HUTCHISON I have none other than You, O Lord. In the Guru's Sanctuary, the Lord is found, O my merchant friend...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together...
DOUGLAS JERROLD To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend...
PROVERB If hindrances obstruct the way,
Thy magnanimity display.
And let thy strength be seen:
B...
WILLIAM COWPER It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...
JANE AUSTEN Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great p...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the
proudest of his works, which buries empir...
EDWARD GIBBON A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
CHINESE PROVERB Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
FRANCIS BACON A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
BENJAMIN RUSH All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by be...
ANITA BROOKNER Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.
[Lat., Multa intersunt calicem et labrum sum...
AULUS GELLIUS Deals under a hundred mil are for shoe clerks.
HUNT BROTHERS Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway,
Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay.
ELIZABETH I Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes th...
CHARLES V Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to
destruction.
[Lat., Eheu! quam brevibus...
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) Fortune favors the brave.
[Lat., Fors juvat audentes.]
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
[Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To som...
GEORGE CHAPMAN Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;
Found the one...
ROBERT BROWNING The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a
goodly heritage.
BIBLE Fortune, now see, now proudly
Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,
Look what thou h...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see
Fortune: for though she be blind, ye...
FRANCIS BACON That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in
his instructions to the King, his s...
FRANCIS BACON If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not
despond.
[Lat., Si fortuna juvat, ca...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel
become most wretched before evening.
...
MARCELLINUS AMMIANUS (AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS) To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
AESCHYLUS We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works...
C.S. LEWIS God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into t...
MARK TWAIN Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven.
FILIPINO PROVERB You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune.
[Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]
- Juliu...
JULIUS CAESAR (CAIUS JULIUS CAESAR) If I traveled to the end of the rainbow - As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell ...
BERT WHITNEY Fortune sides with him who dares
VIRGIL The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen as...
FRANCIS BACON SR. If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and ...
NAPOLEON HILL I made a fortune getting out too soon
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune
RAYMOND QUENEAU I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
LEO TOLSTOY At the end of the street was a large glass box with a female mannequin inside it, dressed as a gypsy...
NEIL GAIMAN They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.
GERMAN PROVERB I had the fortune to be drafted to a wonderful city. I fit in there perfectly... because... when you...
BARRY SANDERS The old Fortune 50 companies have great benefits.
BARRY BARNETT It is only when you look now and see success that you say that it was good fortune. It was not. We l...
MARGARET THATCHER It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it
PUBLILIUS SYRUS When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray
PUBLILIUS SYRUS It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ru...
JOHN DRYDEN Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
VINCENT VOITURE Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
[Ger., Ein ta...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
[Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me.
I have a soul that, like an ample shield,
Can take i...
JOHN DRYDEN Ill fortune seldom comes alone.
JOHN DRYDEN His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way ...
HENRY FIELDING Fortune favors the audacious
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS It's my Chinese fortune cookie. The year of the rabbit. The year of the cat. It's the year of the Nu...
GEORGE KARL Fortune favors the brave.
TERENCE It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
TORQUATO TASSO When fortune turns against you even jelly breaks your teeth
IRANIAN PROVERB Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
AESCHYLUS WorldCom and AT&T basically have a duopoly on Fortune 500 customers.
PAT COMACK We want to be the operating system that integrates all these surveys and measurement tools for Fortu...
DON MACPHERSON It's not big and glamorous and there's not a fortune to be made in it, but if you run your business ...
DAVID KEANE We don't tend to make projections because you become a hostage to fortune.
CRAIG RUSSELL I don't think even our founders could have imagined the good fortune we've realized.
DAN AMOS It's certainly unusual for anyone to stay in one place for so long. I've had the great fortune of wo...
DAVID HAVILAND He was a brilliant producer who made a fortune and, of course, lost every cent in hare-brained inves...
DAVID MILCH We need to create brand institutions. In the fortune 500 companies, 5 Indian companies are named whi...
ABDUL KALAM He has turned down an absolute fortune because he wants to come here.
GRAHAM RIX The Wheel of Fortune dollar system in Mississippi is statistically overdue to hit.
ED ROGICH Our customers range from small startups to Fortune 100 enterprises, and span industries such as elec...
JAY FULCHER There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.
JACK YELTON We're focused on the SMB market. Our customers are Fortune 500 companies and down. We don't sell int...
MARK POLLARD
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And t...
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Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
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To the sweet glances of thy honored love,
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Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite ...
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an old tale that the verity of it ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!
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Which holds but till thy news be uttered,
And the...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,
Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.
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And now, to add more measure to your woes,
I come t...
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Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever a...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If't be summer news,
Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st
But keep that count'nance st...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the emnity o' th' air,
To be a comra...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now we sit close about this taper here
And call in question our necessities.
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Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition--
...
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One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;
Tur...
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Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice ...
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Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
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Make instruments to plague us.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity
(So it be new, there's no respect how vile)
That is...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hoy-day!
What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
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Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold;
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear'st thy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship d...
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That wots the miller of; and easy it is
Of a cut lo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner:
Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can
support a boat or overturn it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
So is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
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When thou art all the better part of me?
What can min...
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When his fair angels would salute by palm,
But for...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A politician is one that would circumvent God.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE