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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

Fortune favors the well-prepared.

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

Fortune favors the prepared.

Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.

Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.

Fortune, that favors fools.

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.

Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.