#fortune

In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#luck #stupidity #beauty

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#fame #fortune #friends #good #good friends

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. ↗

— Paul Valery

#brake #great #kind #man #mask

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it. ↗

— Thomas Dekker

#buy #care #cast #day #drink

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#foreheads #fortune #give #luxury #read

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. ↗

— Thomas Day

#fortune #gentleman #large #lived #name

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#early #life #misfortune #necessary #only

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ↗

— Virgil

#boldly #fortune #meet #misfortunes #more

Fortune favours the bold. ↗

— Virgil

#favours #fortune

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#even #fame #follow #fortune #integrity