Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.

Life is short, but the years are long.

"Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

Never cast pearls before swine.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing... but controlled and purposeful violence.