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)

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

    Rare is the virtue that’s not ruled by Fortune,
    That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)