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The Wheel of Fortune

«Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous»
«Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever»
«Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.»
«His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust»
«Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom»
«And the brute crowd, whose envious zeal Huzzas each turn of fortune's wheel, And loudest shouts when lowest lie Exalted worth and station high»
«Fortune, good night; smile once more, turn thy wheel»
«Though fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel»