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The bitter dregs of Fortune’s cup to drain.
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.
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The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]
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The fidelity of barbarians depends on fortune. [Lat., Barbaris ex fortuna pendet fides.]
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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own producing.
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The fortunate man is he who, born poor or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.
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The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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The great man down, you mark his favorite flies, The poor advanced makes friends of enemies; And hitherto doth love on fortune tend, For who not needs shall never lack a friend, And who in want a hollow friend doth try, Directly seasons him his enemy.
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The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.
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The least reliance can be placed be placed even on the most exalted fortune.
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The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
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The lovely young Lavinia once had friends; And fortune smil’d, deceitful, on her birth.
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The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]
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The mould of a man”s fortune is in his own hands
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The old saying is expressed with depth and significance: ‘On the pinnacle of fortune man does not long stand firm.’
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The old Scythians painted blind fortune’s powerful hands with wings, to show her gifts come swift and suddenly, which, if her favorite be not swift to take, he loses them forever.
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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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The shifting hour flies with doubtful wings; nor does swift Fortune keep faith with anyone. [Lat., Volat ambiguis Mobilis alis hora; nec ulli Praestat velox Fortuna fidem.]
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