Fortune Quotes
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If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. (Quote by - Horace)
Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening. (Quote by - Marcellinus Ammianus)
Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip. (Quote by - Aulus Gellius)
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off." (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat; Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. (Quote by - Claudian)
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold. (Quote by - Anita Brookner)
Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more. (Quote by - John Dryden)
The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain. (Quote by - Homer)
Fortune favors the brave. (Quote by - Claudian)
Every individual is the architect of his own fortune. (Quote by - Appius Claudius)
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway, Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay. (Quote by - Elizabeth I)
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. (Quote by - Sallust)
Ill fortune seldom comes alone. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. (Quote by - Douglas Jerrold)
You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune. (Quote by - Julius Caesar)
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. (Quote by - Bible)
Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth. (Quote by - George Chapman)
Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling. (Quote by - Sir Francis Bacon)
O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts. (Quote by - Benjamin Rush)
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. (Quote by - Charles V)
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. (Quote by - Cicero)
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment. (Quote by - Euripides)
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
Fortune and Love befriend the bold. (Quote by - Ovid)
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. (Quote by - Decimus Magnus Ausonius)
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time. (Quote by - Livy)
