I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.

What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.

Good work is not done by 'humble' men

Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown.

Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.

I'd like to just get to a point where maybe we can say something that will be matterful. That's definitely not a word, by the way.

I think communication is key, too. You're answering all the questions. Thank you. I'll just sit back here.

Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.