Quotes About Fortune

For herein Fortune shows herself more kindThan is her custom: it is still her useTo let the wretched man outlive his wealth,To view with hollow eye and wrinkled browAn age of poverty.

I am a man whom Fortune hath cruelly scratched.

I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.

Didst thou never hearThat things ill got had ever bad success?

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

He that has and a little tiny wit,With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,Must make content with his fortunes fit,Though the rain it raineth every day.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

Fortune, good night, smile once more; turn thy wheel!

They are not a pipe for fortune's fingerTo sound what stop she please. Give me that manThat is not passion's slave, and I will wear himIn my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,As I do thee. Something too much of this.

I come to wive it wealthily in Padua.

A man that fortune's buffets and rewardsHast ta'en with equal thanks.

Our jovial star reigned at his birth.

When Fortune means to men most good,She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,That I would set my life on any chance,To mend it or be rid on 't.

Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,Without my stir.

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

To seek their fortunes further than at home,Where small experience grows.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

I was not born under a riming planet.

I bear a charmed life.

Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,To make a hazard of new fortunes here.

O God! that one might read the book of fate.