Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.
Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can.
My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound