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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
Ambrose Bierce
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
George Bernard Shaw
I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.
Ryan Reynolds
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
Ted Turner
If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.
James McAvoy
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
Juvenal
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
Ben Jonson
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Ben Jonson
Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs
We are all chained to fortune: the chain of one is made of gold, and wide, while that of another is short and rusty.
Seneca
Just as an enemy is more dangerous to a retreating army, so every trouble that fortune brings attacks us all the harder if we yield and turn our backs.
Seneca
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Seneca
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Seneca
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do But grapple with her.
Seneca
Happy the man who can endure the highest And the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
Seneca
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
Seneca
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
Joseph Addison
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
Elvis Costello
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Raymond Queneau
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P. T. Barnum
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
P. T. Barnum
I am mindful of human weakness, and I reflect upon the might of Fortune and know that everything that we do is exposed to a thousand chances.
Scipio Africanus
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