#fortune

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #faring #forget #how #misfortunes

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune. ↗

— Sophocles

#evil #fortune #greater #greater evil #men

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. ↗

— Sophocles

#amid #angry #applies #disease #grows

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown. ↗

— Robert Southwell

#frown #how #i #quickly #she

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#clock #during #fortune #frightened #go

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#large #regretted #thing

Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#america #american #clear #continent #contributions

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

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#broken #easily #fortune #glass #glitter

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have. ↗

— John Tesh

#being #being honest #biggest #everything #faith