#fortune

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand. ↗

— Laura San Giacomo

#hand #many #misfortune #need

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fools #fortune #good #good fortune #merit

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#hang #like #long #made #shirts

Fortune, that favors fools. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#fools #fortune

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#had #haven #his #hope #i

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him! ↗

— George Kennedy

#am #anyway #argue #been #brilliant

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#broken #confidence #hungary #i #i believe

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. ↗

— Thucydides

#brilliant #charge #expect #frequently #men

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democracy #exist #form #fortunes #great

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#been #best #clergyman #earnest #effect