A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. |
I was born below par to th' extent of two whiskies. |
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. |
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line |
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line |
There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it |
There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it |
To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation. |
War hath no fury like a non-combatant |