Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.—Ben Jonson.
It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.—Bulwer-Lytton.
The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.—Bovée.
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own producing.—Goldsmith.
Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who certainly cannot help themselves.—Colton.
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.—Douglas Jerrold.
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.—Cowley.
Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, she has made them fortunate.—Montaigne.
See'st thou not what various fortunes the Divinity makes man to pass through, changing and turning them from day to day?—Euripides.
Fortune is but a synonymous word for nature and necessity.—Bentley.