Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity.

With integrity, nothing else counts. Without integrity, nothing else counts.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Wars are not won by evacuations.

One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only "some kind of velvety cool blackness," adding then: "Of course, I admit I may be wrong. It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest."

If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!