#fortune

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. ↗

— William McFee

#doing #ever #guarantee #misfortune #people

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#control #destroy #enemy #freedoms #greatest

Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better. ↗

— Yao Ming

#better #cookies #day #fortune #good

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

#avoiding #birds #cage #cause #danger

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#depression #during #fortune #good #good fortune

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#fortune #never #sure #upon #waits

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#bad fortune #bows #down #earth #faces

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#behold #brave #brave man #conflict #direct

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#fame #fortune #go #idol #like

There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#call #cologne #exercise #fortune #going