The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

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.

By accepting fear in our life, we automatically allow it to rule over us

I want to marry this girl. I want to marry her now.

Events in one area of our lives cascade into every other area.

You too can be as influential as the people that you admire. It is a matter of having the willingness to work relentlessly for it.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

He was bare chested and in good trim. I said that just looking at him I knew there would always be an England

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

In the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the hearts there.

An open umbrella is just a closed beautiful sky.