Deals under a hundred mil are for shoe clerks.

Deals under a hundred mil are for shoe clerks.

Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she read more

Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she gives honor without deserving;
To other some, deserving without honor;
Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth;
Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in
his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune read more

That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in
his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath
somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she
is the farther off."

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven.

Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Fortune and love favor the brave.