Fortune

"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."

"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."