There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
Source: In Poor Man's College Quotations Collection, ed. Sidney Madwed, AAPEX software, 1994.
-- Charles Montesquieu, (Jan 18 1689-1755), French lawyer, political philosopher; He wrote Lettres Persanes, 1721; De L'Esprit des Lois, 1748.