Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

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 British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

If you believe that you will believe anything.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

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