#fortunes

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

#been #escaped #fortune #fortunes #great

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#comes #dark #days #either #everything

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#every #every man #man #many #men

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. ↗

— Paul Getty

#control #defy #families #fortunes #heads

I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes. ↗

— John Hawley

#confidence #disposed #entire #i #i am

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#history #human #human race #misfortunes #nothing

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#hearer #journey #laugh #misfortunes #nothing

Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#foreigners #fortunes #good #i #laying

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#full #happened #life #misfortunes #most

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#connection #existence #faults #misfortunes #mystery