Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

    “Let it not your wonder move,
    Less your laughter, that I love.
    Though I now write fifty years,
    I have had, and have, my peers;
    Poets, though divine, are men:
    Some have loved as old again.
    And it is not always face,
    Clothes, or fortune gives the grace,
    Or the feature, or the youth;
    But the language, and the truth,
    With the ardour and the passion,
    Gives the lover weight and fashion.”
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    “Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.”
    —Silius Italicus (26–101)

    “Hard is his lot, that here by Fortune plac’d,
    Must watch the wild Vicissitudes of Taste;”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)