Showing posts with label George S. Patton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George S. Patton. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Quote (#559)

"The object of war is not to die for your country,
but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)

"It is better to be feared than
loved, if you cannot be both."
- Niccolo Machiavelli

"When a man is wrapped up in himself
he makes a pretty small package."
- John Ruskin (1819-1900)

"I choose a block of marble and
chop off whatever I don’t need."
- Rodin

"Copy from one, it’s plagiarism;
copy from two, it’s research."
- Wilson Mizner

"University politics are vicious precisely
because the stakes are so small."
- Henry Kissinger

Saturday, March 07, 2009

Quotes

"Thought is only a flash between two long
nights, but this flash is everything."
- Henri Poincare

"We are here and it is now. Further than
that all human knowledge is moonshine."
- H. L. Mencken

"All nature wears
one universal grin."
- Henry Fielding

"Heaven lent you a soul,
Earth will lend a grave."
- Christian Nestell Bovee

"Change your thoughts and
you change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale

"If everyone is thinking alike,
then somebody isn't thinking."
- George S. Patton