Famous Military Saying

Famous Military Saying

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Beware of the man of one book."
Saint Thomas Aquinas

"A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart."
Pietro Aretino

"Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people."
Aristotle

"We make war that we may live in peace."
Aristotle

"Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware."
David Armistead

"He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."
Richard Willard Armour

"...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most."
Matthew Arnold

"Give yourself something to work toward--constantly."
Mary Kay Ash

"There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people."
Jan Ashford

"Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
Isaac Asimov

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
Saint Augustine

"The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell."
Saint Augustine

"A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark."
Marcus Aelius Aurelius

"Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men … their wars, their concentration camps, their justice."
Marcel Ayme

"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."
Sir Francis Bacon

"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."
Walter Bagehot

"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward."
Margaret Fairless Barber

"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by."
Sir James Matthew Barrie

"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."
Dave Barry

"Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want."
Bernard Mannes Baruch

"So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now."
William of Baskerville

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."
Simone de Beauvoir

"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future."
Leonard Bernstein

"It ain't the heat, it's the humility."
Lawrence Peter Berra

"There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts."
Mary Bertone

"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."
Hebrews 13:2 Bible

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."
Prince Otto

"The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are."
Ludwig Boerne

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
Bokonon

"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."
Robert Oxton Bolt

"An army marches on its stomach."
Napolean Bonaparte

"The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed."
Nelson Boswell

"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
Phyllis Bottome

“I got caught kissing my dad's ex-girlfriend - at his wedding!” Lee Ryan

A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.Unknown

It takes a good friends

I am my neighbor's Bible: he reads me when we meet, today he reads me in my house, tomorrow in the street, he may be relative or friend, or slight acquaintance be, he may not even know my name, yet he is reading me.
Author unknown

We view this deal definitely as a betrayal. Patrick J. Mahoney