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Fortune
«I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.»
«If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.»
«If ignorance paid dividends most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics»
Author: Luther H. Hodges
| About:
America and Americans,
Fortune,
Ignorance
| Keywords:
dividend, dividends, economics
«If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest»
Author: Simonides
| About:
Death and dying,
Fortune,
Honor,
Nobility,
Virtue
| Keywords:
blest, Crown of Glory, Greece
«It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| About:
Fortune,
Misfortune
| Keywords:
Chief Executive, executive, Office of, previous, The Office
«He that waits upon a fortune, is never sure of a dinner.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Fortune
| Keywords:
waits
«Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.»
«It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Fortune,
Truth
| Keywords:
acknowledged, fortune, good fortune, possession, universally