Quotes of: Bad-fortune Keyword

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Raymond Queneau

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.

Chinese

Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in the same well.

German

What's left over from the thief is spent on the fortune-teller.

Yiddish

Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not frie...

The Wild Rose

Senor Ferrari: What do you want for Sam? Rick: I don't buy or sell human beings. Senor Ferrari: Too bad. That's Casablanca's leading commodity. With refugees alone we can make a fortune if you work with me through the black market. Rick: Suppose you ...

Casablanca

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Ambrose Bierce

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Joseph Addison

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

Tom Stoppard

The palace leads to fame, the market to fortune, and loneliness to wisdom.

Chinese

The winds of heaven change suddenly; so do human fortunes.

Chinese

When Dame Fortune calls, offer her a chair.

Yiddish

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure.

The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure

I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.

Jack O'Connell

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

David Attenborough

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe