Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. |
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals |
England is a nation of shopkeepers |
Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four |
Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes. |
Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack. |
Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack. |
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave |
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. |
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. |
From sublime to ridiculousness there is only one step. |
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. |
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. |
Genuine victories, the sole conquests yielding no remorse, are those gained over ignorance |
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. |