German Patton Quotes & Sayings

Surround your marriage with people who pull you toward your spouse. — Ted Lowe

I am very competitive, so when I fail I use what I learned from that mishap to fuel success. — Tara Lipinski

I didn't get married until I was forty because I wanted to be stable when I got married. I think I just avoided my first marriage and went right to the second. It's sort of how I see it. When you're young, just trying to make it, and trying to find your way in the world, and figure things out ... being married is not easy. — Kurt Fuller

The approach was successful, and Patton did give us a detailed account of his forthcoming battle plans. He said we would first make a hole in the German lines, probably in the western or Lessay sector, and through this hole he would hurl his armor, fanning it out in two great spear-heads, one of which was to go west to Brest and cut off the Brittany peninsula; the other to go east and encircle the German Seventh Army. He said he would be ready to go within two weeks. — Mrs. Patton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. — Charles Caleb Colton

I've had a lazy career. Sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side. — James Spader

Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves. — John Green

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind. — George S. Patton

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade. — George S. Patton

Prompted by the sky, which seemed to make it all a little futile - what they said, what they did - she said something perfectly commonplace again. — Virginia Woolf

As the Battle of Normandy raged, the Germans held fast to the illusion, so carefully planted and now so meticulously sustained, that a great American army under Patton was preparing to pounce and the German forces in the Pas de Calais must remain in place to repel it. — Ben Macintyre

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me. — George S. Patton Jr.

The Truth is in the prolouge.
Death to the romantic fool.,
the expert in solitary confinement. — Pablo Neruda

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself — George Sand