There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

The will of the people is the best law.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

A lot of times it's tough to make the decision on your own. You know what you want to do and it always helps to have someone to rely on to help you out.

In this game you only lose when you fight back

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.

You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to pull off any reform school prank worth the effort.

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

What studies please, what most delight, And fill men's thoughts, they dream them o'er at night.

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.