Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive it can make your day a little better.

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers but I finally chose politics.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

Fortune knocks but once but misfortune has much more patience.

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008 we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune we called it a 'moral hazard ' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would professional sports and television and news and movies.

For us political activists and candidates the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.

President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.

Ah lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

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

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in or the fortunes they have met with.

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse front its blows with brave hearts.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Life is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. Omitted all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves or lose our ventures.