Showing posts with label fortune. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fortune. Show all posts
Monday, August 28, 2017
Monday, July 17, 2017
Friday, May 06, 2016
Friday, September 19, 2014
Post #1645
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development, and display an energy, of which they were previously unsusceptible.
—Benjamin Franklin
—Benjamin Franklin
Friday, October 18, 2013
Post #1377
If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune, for, though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
—Francis Bacon
—Francis Bacon
Saturday, October 05, 2013
Post #1364
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry, and is as often trundling in a wheelbarrow as lolling in a coach and six.
—Oliver Goldsmith
—Oliver Goldsmith
Friday, August 17, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Post #1014
The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run.
—Marquis de Racan
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
- Native Texan · Navy Veteran · Various Scars and Tattoos · No Talent, but yet a Character