quotations about fortune
Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
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Moral Maxims
Fortune, in the distribution of her gifts, resembles a good fellow throwing pennies into the air for children to scramble after. She does not cast to this and to that one according to their respective merits, but leaves chance and their own activity to determine who shall get the most of her bounty.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Now I'm a happy fellow
Well, I am married to the fortune teller
Well happy as me can be
Now I get my fortune told for free
ROLLING STONES
"Fortune Teller"
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
GOETHE
Torquato Tasso
The wheel of Fortune, like that of a ship, is full of spokes, and sometimes flies so sharply round as to crush those who have become puffed up with her favours, so that they burst at the first tap; whilst such as are nourished, instead of bloated, by the stream of prosperity, escape by slipping between the spokes until the pressure has passed, their moderation providing their safeguard.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY
The Maxims
I must claim Fortune is a perverse hag until she kisses me upon the lips.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
SAMUEL SMILES
Self-Help
Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.
GEORGE ELIOT
Daniel Deronda
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs.
SOPHOCLES
Oedipus Rex
Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favors too much.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
A fool having enjoyed good fortune like intoxication to a great amount becomes more foolish.
EPICTETUS
Fragments
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who cannot help themselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
We should enjoy good fortune while we have it, like the fruits of autumn.
EPICTETUS
Fragments