The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
- Broun, Heywood

There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.
- Buddha

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- Farrar

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
- Foch, Ferdinand

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
- Wilde, Oscar