I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.