Fortuna Quotes

La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada

— Louis Pasteur

“Fortuna fortes adiuvat”

— Anonymous

Fortuna likes to find a crowd and follow it.

— Mason Cooley

I could imagine playing for Fortuna.

— Raul

“Straniero! Non tentar la fortuna!”

— Giuseppe Adami

“Fortibus Fortuna Favet”

— Lori Peterson Callaway

Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!

— John Kennedy Toole

“si la fortuna no me acompaña en una ocasión, quizá me sonría en otra.”

— Anonymous

“Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]”

— Marcus Valerius Martialis

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

— John Kennedy Toole

“no hay nadie a quien la fortuna le haya sido siempre fiel.]”

— Santiago Posteguillo

“Fortuna favet fortibus (fortune favors the brave) -mentioned in The Black Book of Secrets”

— Anonymous

Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.

— Mason Cooley

“Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”

— Virgil

“A reinar, fortuna, vamos; no me despiertes, si duermo, y si es verdad, no me duermas.”

— Calderón

“¿Qué me valen tu calma y tu terneza, tranquila noche, solitaria luna, si no calmáis del hado la crudeza, ni me dais…

— José de Espronceda

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le…

— Carlo Goldoni

This is the goddess Fortuna. She brought luck - or took it away. But you'd put up with whatever she did. Because…

— Jacqueline Rayner

Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me…

— John Kennedy Toole

Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat…

— Horace

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt,…

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of…

— Plautus

The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus…

— Ovid

Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after a major success on the…

— Rick Riordan

But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated…

— Sallust

“We are all of us balanced on Fortuna's wheel, clinging as best we can lest we tumble needlessly into Fata's dark maw.…

— Sara Poole

“Alice must already have known, even back then, when she first saw Fortune, when she was, what, nine or ten, that she…

— Vanora Bennett

“Fortuna wished to make amends. Somehow she had summoned and flushed Myrna minx from a subway tube, from some picket line, from…

— John Kennedy Toole

“So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in…

— John Kennedy Toole

People can expect a career-best performance from me against Fortuna.

— Luke Campbell

The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy.

— Rick Riordan

“–Nadie está contento de su fortuna ni descontento de su inteligencia”

— Leo Tolstoy

“No me acostumbro a que se vayan del mundo esos que no han tenido la fortuna de ver a plenitud lo maravilloso…

— Benito Taibo

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

— Plautus