The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

Every battalion has its marching songs.

Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.

An android, ” he said, “doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for."“Then, ” Miss Luft said, “you must be an android.

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things.

Obeying the rules might be smart, but it's not as nearly as much fun.

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.

I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.