A Quote by Sophocles

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Sophocles

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Sophocles
Greek - Poet
496 BC - 406 BC

The only way for the market to accept this reality is if fares are advanced slowly and cautiously, and the very low fares do still appear from time-to-time in the market to allow those who will not travel without them to have access to our service.

Clive Beddoe

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

Ovid

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

Ovid

The Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares.

Michael O'Leary

Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.

Samuel Smiles

The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.

Theocritus

Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

Juvenal

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Oliver Goldsmith

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Marcus Aurelius

Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.

Michael O'Leary

I have the good fortune of knowing both John McCain and Donald Trump well, both men have more in common than the today's media hype would have you believe. Both blazed trails in their careers and love our great nation.

Sarah Palin

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.