Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

“The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would not suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Herein Fortune shows herself more kind
Than is her custom. It is still her use
To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,
To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
An age of poverty; from which lingering penance
Of such misery doth she cut me off.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)