Fortune Quotes - Page 4
Idries Shah (1988). “Caravan of Dreams”, p.220, Octagon Press Ltd
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Nicholas Nickleby Ch. 36
"'Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia' ('The Art of Worldly Wisdom')". Book by Baltasar Gracian, translated by Joseph Jacobs. Maxim No. 59, 2010.
Song: Fame and Fortune
"Medea", CLXXVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 142-44, 1922.
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
"Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.
David Mamet (2016). “Mamet Plays: 3: Glengarry Glen Ross; Prairie du Chien; The Shawl; Speed-the-Plow”, p.36, Bloomsbury Publishing
De Consolatione Philosophiae bk. 2, prose 4 See Dante Alighieri 7
Boethius (1897). “The Consolation of Philosophy”
Bertolt Brecht (1975). “Grove Press modern drama: six plays”, Grove Press
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.49, Shambhala Publications
Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.67, A&C Black
Alexandre Dumas (1997). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions
You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.
