Barbara W. Tuchman, The First Salute Quotes
Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.
These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle
The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.
Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.
Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.
Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.