Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

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.

Happiness is a necessity. It’s not a thing money can buy but a feeling that comes from within.

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous

Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want.

A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.

Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.

I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music. I had to figure out that was way more important than being addicted.