F Quotes
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“Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.”
“Fortune is no real thing.
But men who cannot bear what comes to them
In Nature's way, give their own characters
The name of Fortune.”
“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
“Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.”
“Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.”
“Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.”
Source: Henry V
“Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.”
Source: Shirley and The Professor
“Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.”
“Fortune is slave to the determined and master to the weakling.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.”
“Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.”
“Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.”
“Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.”
“Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.”
“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.”
“Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.”
“Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.”
“Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon
“Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.”
“Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.”
“Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.”
“Fortune may favor the bold, but so does failure.”
Source: Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
“Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.”
Source: Talisman
“Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.”
“Fortune may shine brightly on a woman like that, but the shadow cast is long and dark.”
“Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.”
“Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]”
“Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.”
“Fortune never helps the fainthearted.”
“Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.”
“Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.”
“Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.”
“Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.”
“Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.”
“Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.”
“Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.”
Source: As You Like it
“Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.”
Source: Metamorphoses: books I-VIII
“Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.”
“Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.”
“Fortune’s a right whore:
If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,
That she may take away all at one swoop.”
Source: The White Devil
“Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.”
“Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory.”
“Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.”
Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill
“Fortune sides with he who dares”
“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
“Fortune smiles on my love,
I can breathe once more.
Oh, you alone, my love,
can console my heart
- Rosina”
Source: The Barber of Seville
“Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.”