To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

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.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war.

You may have a guardian angel, but I have a uzzi.You work out who's gunna come out on top!

If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed

Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.

Your subconscious protects you. It's all about listening to it.