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Quotation with: "fortune"
"Man is a peculiar creature. He spends a fortune making his home insect-proof and
air-conditioned, and then eats in the yard."
Author: Unknown
About: Cliches and OneLiners
"A smile is a fortune, but you can't sell it, you can't buy it and you can't steal it, but it isn't good to anyone until it is given away."
Author: Unknown
About: Cliches and OneLiners
"A weird thing about humans is we work till we're sick to get a fortune, then pay a fortune to get well again."
Author: Unknown
About: Cliches and OneLiners
"There was a break at the prison yesterday. An ex-fortune teller, described
as being short with dark hair, broke out of prison. The public is advised
to be on the lookout for a small medium at large."
Author: Unknown
About: Cliches and OneLiners
"The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity."
Author: Samuel Johnson
About: Complaint
"By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above."
Author: Guy Kawasaki
About: Computer Technology Science
"Fortune helps the brave."
Author: Publius Terentius Afer
About: Courage
"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
About: Courage
"It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other."
Author: Francesco Petrarch
About: Courage
"If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death."
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
About: Death
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