Quotes with soldier

  • Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
  • There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
  • A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.
  • The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: ''he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.''
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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general
    Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • Caroline Norton A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.
    Bingen on the Rhine l. 1 (1850)
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  • C. J. Cherryh A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Bobby Ray Inman And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.
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  • Bret Harte And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,
    This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.
    East and West Poems, Part I The Old Major Explains
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Karl Kraus Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Allan Massie Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
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  • John Dryden Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Augusto Pinochet During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.
    Augusto Pinochet
    Chilean general, politician and dictator (1915 - 2006)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Cai Guo-Qiang For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
    Cai Guo-Qiang
    Chinese artist (1957 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie He's five feet two and he's six feet four. He fights with missiles and with spears. He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen. He's been a soldier for a thousand years.
    The Universal Soldier (1963)
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • George S. Patton I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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