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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Quote by Thomas Alva Edison about good luck, wealth, chance, good

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Quote by Alfred Nobel about idea, good, good luck

Without work, talent is nothing but a bad habit.

Quote by Georges Brassens about work, habits, bad luck, talent, bad, nothing

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said: "Is it good, friend? " "It is bitter-bitter, " he answered; "But I like it Because it is bitter, And...

Quote by Stephen Crane about poetry, bitter, heart, prison, good, good luck

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

Quote by Auguste Rodin about good, man, good luck

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson about books, good, good luck, life

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

Quote by Dalton Trumbo about marriage, earth, good, good luck

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

Quote by John Milton about books, spirit, good, good luck

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

Quote by John Milton about crime, self-control, reason, god, good, good luck, man

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Quote by George Washington about solitude, opinion, companies, bad luck, bad

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Quote by Izaak Walton about opinion, companies, good, good luck

It is one of the consolations of middle-aged reformers that the good they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

Quote by Saki about opinion, good, good luck

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

Quote by Jean Racine about god, good, good luck

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Quote by Nicolas Cage about actors, rules, criminals, good, good luck, contentment

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Quote by Jack London about life, good, good luck

Man is a bad animal.

Quote by Molière about people, bad luck, bad, man

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about literature, quality, good, good luck

Every good painter paints what he is.

Quote by Jackson Pollock about painting, good, good luck

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Quote by Mary Shelley about politics, good, good luck

The worse enemy of a bad man is the one who is just like him.

Quote by Pierre de Marivaux about people, enemies, bad luck, bad, man