#fortune

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#make #nobody #pop #shocked #singers

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#being happy #comes #fortune #generous #good

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married. ↗

— Anna Held

#before #fortune #get #get married #her

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#fortune #happiness #hostage

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. ↗

— Epictetus

#begun #complete #education #misfortunes #neither

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#defensive #democracy #fighting #fortunes #more

Fortune favors the audacious. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#favors #fortune

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#depend #disagreeable #him #his #man

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#getting #killed #misfortunes #much #off

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

— Robert Welch

#fortune #good #good fortune #imposed #indeed