Aide De Camp Quotes & Sayings

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death. — Avicenna

So off had gone John to the wars again. But he had not remained for long in the position of a humble volunteer. Colonel Clifton, commanding the 1st Regiment of Dragoons, no sooner heard that Crazy Jack was back then he enrolled him as an extra aide-de-camp. — Georgette Heyer

But the strict rules of precedence produced much odder situations: fathers taking their daughters in to dinner since the girls were the highest-ranking women there; young boys called down from the schoolroom to sit at the head of the table; a general yielding place to his aide-de-camp because the latter was a lord. — Carol Wallace

I'm a whisper in water. — Bjork

Then the short man disappears through the huge doors. Minutes later, the aide-de-camp flings open the shutters of an upstairs window and gazes a moment across the rooftops before unfurling a crimson flag over the brick and securing its eyelets to the sill. — Anthony Doerr

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois. — Ronald Reagan

Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mind. Master your thoughts. Let them serve truth. — Gautama Buddha

Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live. — Ray Brown

Asked the boy to "consider himself at all times as one of his family." Washington was referring to his military family or aides-de-camp, the same way John Adams described the aide Alexander Hamilton as "one of General Washington's Family." So when Washington said "family," he meant "chummy minion." The orphaned Lafayette heard "son. — Sarah Vowell

I have been capable of some mischief in the past. I know what rebellion feels like. Everyone and everything is provided with a destiny, but there is no obligation whatsoever to fulfill it. Some just prefer to ignore the humming of their soul. — E.A.A. Wilson

Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy. — Barton Gellman

Take things slowly. No need to worry about it. Plenty of people moved things and couldn't remember they'd done it. — Lesley Howarth

If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether. — Alexander MacLaren

I'm just a broken thing you're familiar with. — Rick Remender

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself. — Blaise Pascal

Men can be unjust towards me, my dear Junot,' he wrote to his faithful aide-de-camp, 'but it suffices to be innocent; my conscience is the tribunal before which I call my conduct. — Andrew Roberts

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous. — Vidal Sassoon