#fortune

It's better to be impulsive than cautious; fortune is female and if you want to stay on top of her you have to slap and thrust. You'll see she's more likely to yield that way than to men who go about her coldly. And being a woman she likes her men young, because they're not so cagey, they're wilder and more daring when they master her. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#prince #men

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#fate #men

When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep. ↗

— Michael Apted

#asleep #bbc #crying #firmly #fortune

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. ↗

— Rufus Choate

#fortune #genuine #happy #held #his

President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#bush #come #economic #fortunes #friends

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune. ↗

— Dick Gephardt

#good #good fortune #life #lottery #moral

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#able #able man #fortune #his #hundred

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#bee gees #fame #family #fortune #gees

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition. ↗

— Eliza Haywood

#contemplating #happy #his #hit #indulging

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

#beginning #being #center #completely #devoted