Chapter FORSAKE to FOUGHT of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Fortune favours the bold.

Yonge’s Cicero, De Finibus, Book III. Div. 4.

Fortune favours fools.

Anonymous.—From the Latin adage, fortuna favet fatuis.

Fortune in men has some small difference made,
One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Scene I. Line 195. 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.)

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.

FOUGHT.—Sooth’d with the sound, the king grew vain,
Fought all his battles o’er again;
And thrice he routed all his foes,
And thrice he slew the slain.

Dryden.—Alexander’s Feast, Verse 4.

FOUGHT.—The broken soldier, kindly bid to stay,
Sat by his fire, and talk’d the night away;—
Wept o’er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done,
Shoulder’d his crutch, and shew’d how fields were won.

Goldsmith.—The Deserted Village, Line 155.