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.

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.