(1467 quotes found)
“I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly [that I want] to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.”
Drew Barrymore
“Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.”
Oscar Wilde
“Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”
Benjamin Franklin
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
William Shakespeare
“A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.”
Ambrose Bierce
“I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it.”
Mae West
“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.”
Anatole France
“Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted”
Seneca
“Fortune sides with him who dares”
Virgil
