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“Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.”

Men Want Young Water Fame Hollywood Fortune Seeking Old Man Young Women

Author:Karrine Steffans

“It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.”

Men Two Matter Turns Left Party Issues Subjects Effects Poet Aspect Fortune Disappointment Various Versions Consideration Plumber

Author:Thomas Frank

“No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.”

Men Has Beens Fortune Secure Forsaken

Book:The Consolation of Philosophy

Source: The Consolation of Philosophy

“Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.”

Men Fortune Lust Destroyed Ruined Accumulation Avarice Insatiable Expenditures Calculating Thoughtlessness

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.”

“A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.”

Men Wisdom Wise Fortune

Book:The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus

Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus

“O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.”

Men Fortune Thee Juliet Fickle Romeo And Juliet Play Romeo And Juliet Juliet

Author:William Shakespeare

“A wise man turns chance into good fortune.”

Men Turns Chance Business Wise Fortune Good Fortune Fortune And Luck

Author:Thomas Fuller

“It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.”

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Common sense among men of fortune is rare.”

Men Wealth Common Fortune Common Sense

Author:Juvenal