If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end.
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
O fortune, fortune! All men call thee fickle.
There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Though fortunes malice overthrow my state, my mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
Fortune, that arrant whore, ne'er turns the key to the poor.