When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Fortune favours the bold - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_favours_the_bold

    Fortune favours the bold is the translation of a Latin proverb, which exists in several forms with slightly different wording but effectively identical meaning, such as: audentes Fortuna iuvat [1] audentes Fortuna adiuvat; Fortuna audaces iuvat; audentis Fortuna iuvat; This last form is used by Turnus, an antagonist in the Aeneid by Virgil. [2]

  3. List of Latin phrases (A) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(A)

    Fortune favors the bold From Virgil , Aeneid , Book 10, 284, where the first word is in an archaic form, audentis fortuna iuvat . Allegedly the last words of Pliny the Elder before he left the docks at Pompeii to rescue people from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79.

  4. List of Latin phrases (F) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(F)

    Fortune favors the brave or Fortune favors the strong: From Terence's comedy play Phormio, line 203. Also spelled fortis fortuna adiuvat. The motto of HMS Brave and USS Florida. fortes fortuna iuvat: Fortune favors the brave: From the letters of Pliny the Younger, Book 6, Letter 16. Often quoted as fortes fortuna juvat.

  5. List of military unit mottoes by country - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_unit...

    41 Canadian Brigade Group: Fortune favours the bold Hastings & Prince Edward Regiment : Paratus ( Latin for "prepared") [ 2 ] Royal Canadian Air Force : Sic itur ad astra ( Latin for "such is the pathway to the stars")

  6. Fortune Doesn't Always Favor the Bold

    www.aol.com/news/fortune-doesnt-always-favor...

    Fortune Doesn't Always Favor the Bold. February 27, 2020 at 10:00 PM. Case Study The year is 2013, and you are an investment professional at Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo & Co, generally known as GMO ...

  7. Fortuna - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna

    Fortuna also appears in chapter 25 of Machiavelli's The Prince, in which he says Fortune only rules one half of men's fate, the other half being of their own will. Machiavelli reminds the reader that Fortune is a woman, that she favours a strong, ambitious hand, and that she favours the more aggressive and bold young man than a timid elder.

  8. Matt Damon Mocked Anew for ‘Fortune Favors the Brave ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/matt-damon-mocked-anew-fortune...

    For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us

  9. Talk:Fortune favours the bold - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fortune_favours_the_bold

    1 The phrase was used as the motto of the Royal Air Force station based at East Fortune, in East Lothian. The base was operational in the First World War and between 1940 and 1947. The base was operational in the First World War and between 1940 and 1947.