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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Fortune |
| A most poor man, made tame to fortune’s blows. Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act IV. Scene 6. (Edgar.) | 1 |
| I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly scratched. Shakespeare.—All’s Well that Ends Well, Act V. Scene 2. | 2 |
| A man that fortune’s buffets and rewards Has ta’en with equal thanks. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (The Prince to Horatio before the King and Queen came to the play.) | 3 |
| I another, So weary with disasters, tugg’d with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance To mend it, or be rid on’t. Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act III. Scene 1. (First Murderer.) | 4 |
| I am so out of love with life, that I will sue to be rid of it. Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act III. Scene 1. (Claudio to the Duke.) | 5 |
| All other doubts by time let them be clear’d, Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer’d. Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act IV. Scene 3. (Pisanio.) | 6 |
| Who thinks that fortune cannot change her mind, Prepares a dreadful jest for all mankind. Pope.—Book II. Sat. II. To Bethel, Line 123. | 7 |
| Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us any thing. Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 2. (Antony.) | 8 |
| Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Sallust.—De Republicâ Ordinandâ; Beaumont and Fletcher.—Love’s Pilgrimage, Act I. Scene 1. | 9 |
| The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself. Plautus.—Trinummus, Act II. Scene 2. | 10 |
| The mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands. Bacon.—Essay XL. on Fortune, Line 3. | 11 |
| A better fortune will be following a lamentable beginning. Riley’s Ovid.—Meta., Page 249. | 12 |
| Fortune favours the bold. Yonge’s Cicero, De Finibus, Book III. Div. 4. | 13 |
| Fortune favours fools. Anonymous.—From the Latin adage, Fortuna favet fatuis. | 14 |
| Fortune in men has some small difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Line 195. | 15 |
| 1. Her benefits are mightily misplaced; and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 2. ’Tis true; for those that she makes fair, she scarce makes honest; and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favour’dly. Shakespeare.—As You Like It, Act I. Scene 2. (Rosalind and Celia.) | 16 |
| For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love; And, when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between, and bid us part. Thomson.—Song, Verse 1. | 17 |
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