“There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. Cervantes Every war has its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.”
Karl Shapiro
“One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune”
Swedish Proverb
“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.”
Mark Twain
“Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.”
Walter Raleigh Sr.
“It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”
Thomas Alva Edison
