Posts Tagged ‘War’
So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
William of Baskerville
Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
Wolcott Gibbs
My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.
William H. McNeill
You can’t say civilization don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
Will Rogers
I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I’ve every said, and I used it in the FOLLIES of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can’t confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.
Will Rogers
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. LeGuin
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.
Victor Hugo