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| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. |
| Fortune |
| Fortune, like other females, delights rather on favoring the young than the old. —Joseph Addison | 1 |
| Fortune is like women, loves youth and is fickle. —Anonymous | 2 |
| Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall; and again, it is sometimes like Sibylla’s offer, which at first offereth the commodity at full, then consumeth part and part, and still holdeth up the price. —Francis Bacon | 3 |
| The way of Fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. —Francis Bacon | 4 |
| Fortune resembles an unjust distributor of the Olympic prizes, in so much as she most frequently bestows her favours on the undeserving. —Demophilus | 5 |
| False Fortune, like a fawning strumpet, About to leave the bankrupt prodigal, With a dissembled smile would kiss at parting, And flatter to the last. —John Dryden | 6 |
| Good fortune, like ripe fruit, ought to be enjoyed while it is present. —Epictetus | 7 |
| Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large. —J. Petit-Senn | 8 |
| Fortune is like a widow won, And truckles to the bold alone. —William Somerville | 9 |
| Fortune, like other drabs, values a man gradually less for every year he lives. —Jonathan Swift | 10 |
| Fortune is like glass—the brighter the glitter, the more easily it is broken. —Publius Syrus | 11 |
| Fortune as well as women must be taken in the humor. —William Wycherley | 12 |
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