Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is an army of waiters in this world.

Henry Ward Beecher

Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It's not the size of the army but the power within the army.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

Napoleon Bonaparte

An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

Napoleon Bonaparte

An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

Napoleon Bonaparte

France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I generally had to give in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Without cavalry, battles are without result.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all

Napoleon Bonaparte

Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.

Norman Wisdom

I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.

Norman Wisdom

I owe everything to the army.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.

Norman Mailer

The condition that is most disagreeable in your life becomes the most useful one. You know, I feel the same way about the U.S. Army. It was absolutely the worst experience of my life, and it was probably the single most valuable experience.

Norman Mailer

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.

Orson Welles

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

Orson Welles

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

Michael Arad

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

Menachem Begin

The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him

Markus Zusak

My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.