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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune. - Thomas Gray, On His Own Character Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any. - Sir John Harington (Harrington), Epigram--Of Fortune It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man. - William Hazlitt (1) Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. - Herodotus ("Father of History") The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. XX, l. 85), (Pope's translation) Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (III, 24, 64) I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty. [Lat., Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit Pennas, resigno quae dedit, et mea Virtute me involvo, probamque Pauperiem sine dote quaero.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (III, 29) If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him. [Lat., Cui non conveniet sua res, ut calceus olim, Si pede major erit subvertet; si minor, uret.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 10, 42) In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (I, 1, 7) Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. - Douglas William Jerrold How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them! - Ben Jonson Ill-fortune never crushed that mar whom good fortune deceived not. - Ben Jonson Fortune, that favours fools. - Ben Jonson, Alchemist--Prologue--Every Man Out of His Humour (I, 1) We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune. - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed. - Jean de la Bruyere There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune. - Jean de la Bruyere The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. - Jean de la Fontaine Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.] - Jean de la Fontaine, Fables (X, 14) We read on the forehead of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that Fortune sells what she is thought to give. [Fr., Il lit au front de ceux qu'um vain luxe environne, Que la fortune vend ce qu'on croit qu'elle donne.] - Jean de la Fontaine, Philemon et Baucis For fortune's wheel is on the turn, And some go up and some go down. - Mrs. Mary Eliza Tucker Lambert, Going Up and Coming Down Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune. - Lao-Tzu (Lao-Tsze or Laosi)("The Venerable Philosopher") Fortune turns everything to the advantage of her favorites. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Displaying page 4 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9
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