(27 quotes found)
“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.”
Charles Edward Montague
“He didn't even take up golf because it would take away time from his family or children or grandchildren. He was completely selfless.”
Charles Edwards
“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”
“War hath no fury like a non-combatant”
“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”
“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.”
“To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.”
“For students in Iowa, I think it sends the wrong message. I think it undermines our credibility when in one area we have the authority to set standards, we have such a minimum that is, in my opinion, embarrassing.”
“I think it would be barely satisfactory from the strong message I got from (Vilsack), but we're trying to come up with something that a majority of the board could agree on,”
