Common Marine Corps Quotes & Sayings

By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue. — Chester W. Nimitz

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with. — Langhorne Slim

Time on Earth is an opportunity to become more highly evolved, and then people move on or cross over - a — Patricia Cornwell

Be purity of life the test, leave to the heart, to heaven the rest. — Charles Sprague Sargent

Vigorous public ball scratching is common in the combat-arms side of the Marine Corps, even among high-level officers in the midst of briefings. — Evan Wright

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. — Emily Bronte

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. — Samuel Johnson

She didn't do people, dammit. She did books. A world of difference — Vic James