#fortune

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#criminal #crown #daring #diminishes #fortune

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back. ↗

— Junior Seau

#excuses #full #i #life #looking

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#longer #loved #misfortune

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#chance #expensive #fortune #getting #giving

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#evil #great #great evil #misfortune #prompt

I never pay a fortune for clothes. ↗

— Joss Stone

#fortune #i #never #pay

When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#fortune #had #his #lot #made

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#fail #fortune #good #good fortune #happiness

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#caution #good #good thing #learn #misfortunes

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fortune #happy #merit #miserable #only