Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.
I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
I didn't want to be a 'Fortune' writer who was constrained in any way.
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
Hyeon means sunshine. Seo means good fortune. I chose it so that I would live my life in light and warmth and not return to the shadow.
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.
I've always found a way to make my way, and now I've had the fortune of being hired by a great company - Chrysler Corporation - one of the original Big Three.
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Fortune favors the audacious.
There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open the gate, thus stirring up the Church militant.
I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.
I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.
President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.