“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 Copy Share Image
Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat… — Horace Copy Share Image
The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after a major success on the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le… — Carlo Goldoni Copy Share Image
This is the goddess Fortuna. She brought luck - or took it away. But you'd put up with whatever she did. Because… — Jacqueline Rayner Copy Share Image
“Alice must already have known, even back then, when she first saw Fortune, when she was, what, nine or ten, that she… — Vanora Bennett Copy Share Image
The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of… — Plautus Copy Share Image
