“Fickle as water, our life is as dreamlike as smoke - at our expense, fate's private joke. -The Bronze Horseman”
“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. ”
“If you think fate is fickle, try tempting it”
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
“Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.”
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”