#fortune

The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part so often get mixed up with the wrong parties of the second part, robbed of their cooler judgement by the party of the second part's glamour. Put it like this: the male sex is divided into rabbits and non-rabbits and the female sex into dashers and dormice, and the trouble is that the male rabbit has a way of getting attracted by the female dasher (who would be fine for the non-rabbit) and realizing too late that he ought to have been concentrating on some mild, gentle dormouse with whom he could settle down peacefully and nibble lettuce. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#love #misfortune #trouble #age

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#gratefulness #misfortunes #reflection #men

The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #success #the-fortune-in-failing #inspirational

Do you know the opportunity you get when you fail? It is starting again - an opportunity to perform better. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #opportunity #the-fortune-in-failing #inspirational

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. ↗

— Rufus Choate

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The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name. ↗

— William Dampier

#apt #everything #fortune #good #hardly

President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#bush #come #economic #fortunes #friends

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune. ↗

— Dick Gephardt

#good #good fortune #life #lottery #moral

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#able #able man #fortune #his #hundred

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#bee gees #fame #family #fortune #gees