FORTUNE QUOTES

quotations about fortune

Fortune quote

A Change of Fortune hurts a wise Man no more than a Change of the Moon.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1756


Fortune may flatter us, but she herself is not to be flattered.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


It can't be a good sign when your fortune cookie starts out with "Are you sitting down?"

TOM WILSON

Ziggy, Apr. 14, 1998


There is frequently a poison in fortune's gifts.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling,
I've felt all its favours and found its decay.

ALISON COCKBURN

The Flowers of the Forest


Bear the greatest fortune as if thou deserved it not.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Fortune favors the brave.

TERENCE

Phormio


When fortune comes seize her in front firmly, because behind she is bald.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life


The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


Behind every great fortune is a great crime.

JULIA STILES

"Julia Stiles gets Shakespearean again", Salon, June 20, 2019


The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote


Fortunes are wrung from the smallest of things
That once were ignored, turning men into kings.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Ragman"


By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Salammbo


O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?

HORACE

Satires


Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays


Who lets slip Fortune, her shall never find.
Occasion once pass'd by, is bald behind.

ABRAHAM COWLEY

Pyramus and Thisbe


There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

EURIPIDES

Iphigenia in Tauris


Fortune's favours are too often like thunderbolts--which kill.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Maxims


The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

GOETHE

Torquato Tasso