"There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war." ― Miguel de Cervantes Topic(s): War More From Miguel de Cervantes "That’s the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not." "No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly." "To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there’s more reason to fear than to hope." More In War "It is not only the living who are killed in war."― Isaac Asimov "One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it."― Pedro Calderon de la Barca "Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever."― Arthur Henderson