I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

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.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

You know, I never believed in fate until I met you... then I started thinking coincidence didn't have near so cruel a sense of humor

There's talk he's become emotionally unhinged.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.

I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.

Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed

Love is a tempestuous mistress. And none of us shall ever master her.

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!