#fortune

I never pay a fortune for clothes. ↗

— Joss Stone

#fortune #i #never #pay

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#bit #certain #find #fortune #four

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#devastating #lot #misfortune #more #sudden

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#deny #fortune #group #i #inspiration

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#desires #does #fortune #full #himself

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#beauty #big #comfortable #constant #contributes

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#demonstrate #fortunes #i #incapable #insecure

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#beyond #committing #entertain #fortune #good

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#fabled #fortune #good #good fortune #labor

Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday. ↗

— Jamal Lewis

#face #fortune #good #good fortune #him