#fortune

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. ↗

— Jane Austen

#deserve #fortune #large #many #men

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#himself #misfortune #right #sorry #strikes

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#am #any #ashamed #bashfulness #birth

Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock. ↗

— Roman Payne

#fortune #lizards #payne #roman #sun

He'd once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink of an eye. Tesseract knew the truth of that as well as anybody. It was in those moments that he struck, after all, snatching people's lives away. He'd always known that it was only a matter of time before one of those moment's worked against him. ↗

— Derek Landy

#killing #luck #misfortune #murder #turning-tides

Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune. ↗

— Jindřich Štyrský

#misfortune #vice #death

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies. ↗

— Ted Turner

#fortune #good #good fortune #had #i

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. ↗

— Solon

#misfortune #equality

It would be ridiculous to hold your breath and blame others for your inability to breathe. In the same sense, it is ridiculous to live an unaligned life and blame God for your misfortune. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#breathe #god #life #live #misfortune

If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#misfortune #optimism #tragedy #experience