Croesus Quotes

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. - Croesus Of Lydia

How strangely our Bark is tossed-Poor as Job yesterday-rich as Croesus Tomorrow!-and who could not wish to live to enjoy this Life of pleasurable anxiety? Not I believe me. - John James Audubon

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons. - Francis Bacon Sr