#fortune

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#carrying #duration #favors #fortune #her

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#desert #desert island #divides #evils #find

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#destiny #fulfilling #her #ideal #maid

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#around #because #blue #bruise #call

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#chose #could #finally #fortune #i

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them. ↗

— Horace

#does #feet #fortune #large #pinch

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain. ↗

— Horace

#count #everyday #fortune #gain #going

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him. ↗