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.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.