#fortune

You think you're paying your dollar for a chance at the $6.2 million jackpot on Saturday, but really you're paying for the pleasure of the car ride home, deciding which credit card to pay off first and where your kid will suddenly be able to go to college. ↗

— Kelly Braffet

#hope #home

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance. ↗

— Mas'udi

#chance #fortune #luck #skill #wealth

It's better to be impulsive than cautious; fortune is female and if you want to stay on top of her you have to slap and thrust. You'll see she's more likely to yield that way than to men who go about her coldly. And being a woman she likes her men young, because they're not so cagey, they're wilder and more daring when they master her. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#prince #men

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.... ↗

— Thomas Bernhard

#publishing #writing #money

When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritous, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune. ↗

— George Eliot

#nature

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#behind #crime #every #fortune #lies

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss. ↗

— George Mason

#baby #been #blameless #bliss #called

She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#book #fortunes #fun #great #life

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! ↗

— Petrarch

#earth #fortune #how

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #misfortune #stories #unhappiness #life