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
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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
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HLONIM
They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC
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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
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NEIL GAIMAN
What is the Other?" they ask.
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PAULO COELHO
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J.K. ROWLING
Always look on the bright side of life.
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ALEX SHEARER
The governor has the good fortune to have the House and the Senate
controlled by his party. If ...
JEAN ROBERT LAFORTUNE
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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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, ...
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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
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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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
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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...
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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
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CATHERINE THE GREAT
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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.'
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
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