Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
Charles V

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
Vincent Voiture

Fortune is either with you or it's not.
Tom Araya

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Publilius Syrus

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
James Russell Lowell

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Laurence J. Peter

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Horace

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
Sophocles

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
Torquato Tasso

Fortune sides with him who dares.
Virgil

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Euripides

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Michel de Montaigne

Fortune, that favors fools.
Ben Jonson

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Julius Caesar

Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
John Webster

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Maria Edgeworth

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Ambrose Bierce

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Arthur Schopenhauer