La fortune rit aux sots = Fools have the best luck.

[“Fortuna fortes adjuvat.”—Livy, xxxiv. 37.]

Voulez-vous accepter la fortune du pot? = Will you take pot-luck with us?

Faire contre fortune bon cœur = To bear up against misfortune; To make the best of a bad job.

Fou

Cela lui a coûté un argent fou (fam.) = That cost him a heap of money.

*Combattre un fou est temps perdu = Fools are not to be convinced.

[Schiller says: “Heaven and Earth fight in vain against a dunce” (“Mit der Dummheit fechten Götter selbst vergebens.”—Jungfrau von Orleans), and the Chinese say: “One never needs his wit so much as when one argues with a fool.”]

Ne faites pas messagers des fous = “He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage.” Prov. xxvi. 6.