Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
EURIPIDES For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
EURIPIDES Fortune is always on the side of the big battalions
MARIE DE SEVIGNE Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow
CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
SOPHOCLES Well, yelling real loud, that's an important skill to have, too. You never know when you might walk ...
DIANE HAMMOND As it says in the Bible, God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.
IGGY POP Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST The senator cleared his throat, uncomfortable. This was probably new to him—the sensation of being...
JENN MARIE THORNE I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen...
RAYMOND E. FEIST ...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a...
JACK KEROUAC This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback)
"I know t...
AMAZON REVIEWER The fights are always the same
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side...
NORMAN JEWISON But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD Fights would not last, if only one side was wrong
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Fights would not last, if only one side was wrong
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
BALTASAR GRACIAN She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO The three witches and the knight set off down the hill together, arm in arm, and all four led long a...
J.K. ROWLING Always look on the bright side of life.
MONTY PYTHON Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN But that's always the way, isn't it? It's easy to be sensible for other people, but you can't always...
ALEX SHEARER The governor has the good fortune to have the House and the Senate
controlled by his party. If ...
JEAN ROBERT LAFORTUNE It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not lit...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Providence is always on the side of the last reserve
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE God is always on the side of the big battalions.
VOLTAIRE God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
VOLTAIRE Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRé GIDE No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you...
JASCHA HEIFETZ In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must a...
TITE KUBO Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There are always ears on the other side of the wall
CHINESE PROVERBS Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.
SHANNON L. ALDER Always look on the bright side of life. (Monty Python)
MICHAEL PALIN We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS