Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

I can never forgive God for having invented the French

Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.