108 quotes found
"Fair fortune may conceal foul."
"Ill fortune seldom comes alone."
"Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleas'd to bless."
"Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look, Look what thou hast brought this land to!—"
"Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever."
"O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers, Why make such game of this poor life of ours?"
"Fortune comes well to all that comes not late."
"Coniunx est mihi, sunt nati; dedimus tot pignora fatis."
"Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade; The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd."
"Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles."
"Fortune knows, We scorn her most, when most she offers blows."
"And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms."
"Fortune brings in some boats, that are not steer'd."
"That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please."
"The great man down, you mark his favorite flies, The poor advanced makes friends of enemies."
"Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest letters? She either gives a stomach, and no food; Such are the poor, in health: or else a feast, And takes away the stomach; such are the rich, That have abundance, and enjoy it not."
"Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything."
"When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye."
"A good man's fortune may grow out at heels."
"Fortune, that arrant whore, Ne'er turns the key to the poor."
"O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle."
"Know thus far forth: By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune — Now my dear lady — hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop."
"How some men creep in skittish Fortune's hall, While others play the idiots in her eyes!"
"Fortis fortuna adiuvat Fortune favours the brave."
"The lovely young Lavinia once had friends; And fortune smil'd, deceitful, on her birth."
"Adspirat primo Fortuna labori."
"Vixi, et, quem dederat cursum Fortuna, peregi."
"To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals."
"Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli; Si fortuna tonat, caveto mergi."
"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.""
"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible."
"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."
"Cæsarem vehis, Cæsarisque fortunam."
"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."
"Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia."
"Fors juvat audentes."
"Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis."
"If hindrances obstruct thy 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."
"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."
"Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway, Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay."
"Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment."
"Multa intersunt calicem et labrum summum."
"Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave."
"Das Glück erhebe billig der Beglückte."
"Ein Tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschäftig sein sobald sie reift."
"Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune; He had not the method of making a fortune."
"Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any."
"The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain."
"Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit Pennas, resigno quæ dedit, et mea Virtute me involvo, probamque Pauperiem sine dote quære."
"Curtæ nescio quid semper abest rei."
"Cui non conveniet sua res, ut calceus olim, Si pede major erit subvertet; si minor, uret."
"Horæ Momento cita mors venit aut victoria læta."
"Fortune, that favours fools."
"Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse."
"Il lit au front de ceux qu'un vain luxe environne, Que la fortune vend ce qu'on croit qu'elle donne."
"La fortune ne paraît jamais si aveugle qu' a ceux à qui elle ne fait pas de bien."
"Barbaris ex fortuna pendet fides."
"Non semper temeritas est felix."
"Non temere incerta casuum reputat, quem fortuna numquam decepit."
"Raro simul hominibus bonam fortunam bonamque mentem dari."
"Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat ætas."
"Quivis beatus, versa rota fortunæ, ante vesperum potest esse miserrimus."
"You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe—or she will call you ungrateful."
"Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli."
"Audentem forsque Venusque juvant."
"Casus ubique valet: semper tibi pendeat hamus, Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit."
"Fortuna miserrima tute est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest."
"Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; Tempora si fuerint nubila solus eris."
"Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam."
"I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, For when at worst, they say, things always mend."
"C'est la fortune de France."
"Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet."
"Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum."
"Actutum fortunæ solent mutarier; varia vita est."
"Fortune had so favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale."
"The wheel goes round and round, And some are up and some are on the down, And still the wheel goes round."
"Who thinks that fortune cannot change her mind, Prepares a dreadful jest for all mankind. And who stands safest? Tell me, is it he That spreads and swells in puff'd prosperity, Or bless'd with little, whose preventing care In peace provides fit arms against a war?"
"The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage."
"Præsente fortuna pejor est futuri metus."
"Nihil est periculosius in hominibus mutata subito fortuna."
"Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet."
"Chacun est artisan de sa bonne fortune."
"Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque."
"Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget."
"Præcipites regum casus Fortuna rotat."
"Quidquid in altum, fortuna tulit, ruitura levat."
"Quid non dedit fortuna non eripit."
"Felix, quisquis novit famulum Rogemque pati, Vultusque potest variare suos! Rapuit vires pondusque malis, Casus animo qui tulit æquo."
"Aurea rumpunt tecta quietem, Vigilesque trahit purpura noctes. O si pateant pectora ditum, Quantos intus sublimis agit Fortuna metus."
"Iniqua raro maximis virtutibus Fortuna parcit. Nemo se tuto diu Periculis offerre tam crebris potest, Quem sæpe transit casus, aliquando invenit."
"O Fortuna, viris invida fortibus, Quam non æque bonis præmia dividis!"
"Minor in parvis Fortuna furit, Leviusque ferit leviora deus."
"Volat ambiguis Mobilis alis hora; nec ulli Præstat velox Fortuna fidem."
"So is Hope Changed for Despair—one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god—all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you."
"Fortune, my friend, I've often thought, Is weak, if Art assist her not: So equally all Arts are vain, If Fortune help them not again."
"In losing fortune, many a lucky elf Has found himself."
"Fortune is like a widow won, And truckles to the bold alone."
"Fors æqua merentes<br.Respicit."
"Fortuna nimium quem favet, stultum facit."
"Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur."
"Miserrima est fortuna quæ inimico caret."
"Felicitate corrumpimur."
"Che sovente addivien che'l saggio è'l forte. Fabre a se stesso è di beata sorte."
"By wondrous accident perchance one may Grope out a needle in a load of hay; And though a white crow be exceedingly rare, A blind man may, by fortune, catch a hare."
"Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love, And, when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between, and bid us part?"
"For fortune's wheel is on the turn, And some go up and some go down."
"Audentes fortuna juvat."
"Non equidem invideo: miror magis."