People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.Louisa May Alcott
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.Francis Bacon
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.William Shakespeare
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.Plautus
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.Baltasar Gracian
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.Horace