#tune

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#fortune #happiness #hostage

I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man! ↗

— Ken Hensley

#chord #could #course #david #guitar

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#imagination #misfortune #quixote

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. ↗

— Epictetus

#begun #complete #education #misfortunes #neither

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#defensive #democracy #fighting #fortunes #more

Fortune favors the audacious. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#favors #fortune

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#hang #like #long #made #shirts

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#depend #disagreeable #him #his #man

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. ↗

— Erica Jong

#dance #own #rhythm #tune #wonderful

Fortune, that favors fools. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#fools #fortune