Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote | Ambrose Bierce | Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses. | |
Dorothy Parker | Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to that point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. | |
Honore de Balzac | Behind every great fortune there is a crime. | |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | A great fortune is a great slavery. | |
New York City detective | I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. | |
Steven Wright | Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. | |