73rd Cavalry Quotes & Sayings

Returning to the boat we passed bridges, railroad tracks, warehouses, factories, wharves and what not. It was like following in the wake of a demented giant who had sown the earth with crazy dreams. If I could only have seen a horse or a cow, or just a cantankerous goat chewing tin cans, it would have been a tremendous relief. But there was nothing of the animal, vegetable or human kingdom in sight. It was a vast jumbled waste created by pre-human or sub-human monsters in a delirium of greed. It was something negative, some not-ness of some kind or other. It was a bad dream and towards the end I broke into a trot, what with disgust and nausea, what with the howling icy gale which was whipping everything in sight into a frozen pie crust. When I got back to the boat I was praying that by some miracle the captain would decide to alter his course and return to Piraeus. — Henry Miller

No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The world looks totally empty to me. Everything I see around me looks fake. The only thing thay isn't fake is that gooshy thing inside me. — Haruki Murakami

In life things are only free after you've paid for them. — T.A. Uner

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. — Kin Hubbard

The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all. — Hector Hugh Munro

In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish. — John W. Gardner

The proof of gold is fire ... — Benjamin Franklin