1594 Army Quotes & Sayings

You know, Nabby, there's mighty few pleasures in life to equal doing one's job. It is an act of love ... -p. 131 — Irving Stone

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic — Anton Chekhov

I am a joke told
again. — Charles Bukowski

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it. — Thomas Carlyle

Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads. — Guy Cook

Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States. — Henry A. Wallace

It's autumn in New York. The colors are changing - yellow, the browns, the greens, the oranges. And that's just the tap water. — David Letterman

If it's not growing, it's going to die. — Michael Eisner

I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Porto Ricans at Harvard University believe that the crime was a horrible one and it should be punished, but death penalty would add to, and not detract from, its horrors," the Harvard students wrote. One of the student signatures on the letter was by Pedro Albizu y Campos who would later become a Puerto Rican promoter of ideals for the island's independence from the United States. — Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini

Be thankful for quality competitors who push you to your limit. — Michael Josephson

Suppressing the fear of death makes it all the stronger. The point is only to know, beyond any shadow of doubt, that "I" and all other "things" now present will vanish, until this knowledge compels you to release them - to know it now as surely as if you had just fallen off the rim of the Grand Canyon. Indeed you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it's no help to cling to the rocks falling with you. If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are. — Alan W. Watts

I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub one out, that's like runs batted in. — Arj Barker

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint. — Publilius Syrus