Armies Quotes (page 16)

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• army
• end
• greatness

If then this tendency toward collectivization is a mutation there is no reason to suppose it is for the better. It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles—a tendency that can end only in extinction. John Steinbeck

• consider
• military
• personality

Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army. Self-interested behavior, such as deploying troops to serve the nation, is considered boorish in Manhattan salons. Ann Coulter

• army
• conquered
• stop

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence. Otto von Bismarck

• giving
• army
• try

You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take it. Mignon McLaughlin

• friend
• friends
• indian

The Army is the Indian's best friend. George Armstrong Custer

• may
• women
• womens day

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth! Gloria Steinem

• history
• army
• invincibility

History has shown there are no invincible armies. Joseph Stalin

• army
• king
• ruins

Too many kings can ruin an army Homer

• education
• army
• safeguard

Education safeguards liberty better than a standing army. Edward Everett

• greek
• great
• army

While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them. Plutarch

• army
• waiting
• water

War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she... Mary Roberts Rinehart

• smart
• him
• work

At present I do not feel that I have seen more than the fringe of poverty. Still, I can point to one or two things I have definitely learned by being hard up. I shall never again think that all tramps are drunken scoundrels, nor expect a beggar to be grateful when I give him a penny, nor be surprised if men out of work lack energy, nor subscribe to the Salvation Army, nor pawn my clothes, nor refuse a handbill, nor enjoy a meal at a smart restaurant. That is a beginning. George Orwell

• wishes
• army
• saying

We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying Stephen Ambrose

• wind
• feeling
• thoughts

At times, feeling the wind on my brow, I went numb with horror. In my imagination I saw armies of ants and cockroaches calling to one another and scurrying toward my head, to some place under the top of my skull, where they would build new nests. There they would proliferate and eat out my thoughts, one after another, until I would become as empty as the shell of a pumpkin from which all the fruit has been scraped out. Jerzy Kosinski

• fall
• shadow
• tree

It does not do to let the senses fall asleep, whether in the shade of the sacred tree or in the shadow of an army. Victor Hugo