#fortune

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#empty #far #favors #form #fortune

When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep. ↗

— Michael Apted

#asleep #bbc #crying #firmly #fortune

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#always #angel #cloud #every #face

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#his #man #misfortune #mother #wife

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#bad #exaggerate #happiness #happy #misfortune

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. ↗

— Aesop

#better #misfortunes #others #own #than

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#fortunes #left #marry #men #money

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. ↗

— Aristotle

#comfort #deeds #friends #incite #keep

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ↗

— Aristotle

#misfortune #really #shows #those #who

Fortune befriends the bold. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#fortune