Let us draw upon content for the deficiencies of fortune.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  The Vicar of  Wakefield, ch.3.

Here rest his head upon the lap of earth Ayouth to fortune and to fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.

-Gray,Thomas
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.117^20,'The Epitaph'.

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune.

-Gray,Thomas
  'Sketch of His Own Character'.

Non enim quo quisque ditior sive potentior, ideo et melior: fortunae illud est, hoc virtutis. To be wealthieror more powerful isnot necessarily tobe worthier: the former are products of fortune, the latter stems from virtue.

-He¤  lo|«  se
c.1135  First letter to Peter  Abelard.

But thou liv'st fearless; and thy face ne'er shows Fortune when she comes, or goes.

-Herrick, Robert
  'A Country Life:  To His Brother, M. Tho. Herrick'.

All the arguments which are brought to represent povertyasno evil, show ittobe evidentlyagreatevil.You never find people labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, 20  Jul. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

What should I do, But cocker up my genius, and live free To all delights my fortune calls me to?

-Jonson, Ben
  Volpone, act1, sc.2.

Fortune, that favours fools.

-Jonson, Ben
  The Alchemist, act1, sc.4.

Minds that are great and free, Should not on fortune pause, 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

-Jonson, Ben
The Underwood,'An Ode to Himself' (published1640).

L'esclave n'a qu'un ma|"tre; l'ambitieux en a autantqu'il ya des gens utiles a'   sa fortune. A slave has but one master; an ambitious person has as many as he needs to make his fortune.

-La Bruye'  re,Jean de
  Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Du c½ur', no.70.

Cricket is a game full of forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill- defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  Raffles and Miss Blandish.

We will watch the sun set againömany times, and perhaps we'll see the Emerald Drop, the green flash that brings good fortune.

-Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams
  Wide Sargasso Sea, pt.2.

Every man is the maker of his own fortune

-Stein, Gertrude
  In theTatler, no.52, 9 Aug.

Les gens qu'on honore ne sont que des fripons qui ont eu le bonheur de n'e"  tre pas pris en flagrant de¤  lit. Respected people are only rascals who have had the good fortune not to be caught in the act.

-Stendhal pseudonym of  Henri Beyle
  Le Rouge et le noir, bk.2, ch.44.

O happy dames, that may embrace The fruit of your delight, Help to bewail the woeful case And eke the heavy plight Of me, that wonted to rejoice The fortune of my pleasant choice. Good ladies, help to fill my mourning voice.

-Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of
  'O happy dames'.

Fortis fortuna adiuvat. Fortune favours the brave.

-Terence full name PubliusTerentius Afer
  BC  Phormio, 203.

   To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go any length for itörisk fortune, character, reputation, life itself.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
c.1906  Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Notebook (1935).

Audentis Fortuna iuvat! Fortune helps those who dare.

-Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro
Aeneid, bk.10, l.284.The phrase is often rendered as'Fortune favours the brave'.

Fortune's a right whore: If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels, That she may take awayall at one swoop. 894

-Webster,John
  TheWhite Devil, act1, sc.1.