famous 'quotes, ... applicable to Chess.

 There is a tide in the affairs of men.

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the fortune of their life

is bound in shallows and in miseries.

On such a full sea are we now afloat,

And we must take the current when it serves,

Or lose our ventures.

William Sheakspeare. 'Julius Ceaser. 'spoken by "Brutus.