Quotes tagged ‘Life’

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“The first qualification of a soldier is fortitude under fatigue and privation.”

“Gentlemen, clear the smoke and continue the honor of those before you.”

“I have a life. A real life. I don't need to be defined by a husband or children to have a real life.”

“All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them.”

“Faint heart never fucked a pig.”

“There are only two kinds of people who understand the Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second hand opinion.”

“I see we are but phantoms, all we who live, or fleeting shadow.”

“Nothing is more desirable to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.”

“Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.”

“Thou knowest this man's fall; brother knowst not his wrassling.”

“Experience doesn't teach: it deforms.”

“Simia quicquid agit, simia semper erit, (Whatever a monkey does, a monkey she'll always be.)”

“Dis am life; some go up and some go down.”

“Quien no lo tiene, lo hace, y quien lo tiene, lo deshance. (He who doesn't have it, does it, and he who has it misuses it.)”

“Boys step back, and men step forward.”

“Sometimes the greatest truth isn't in the confession but rather in the lesson learned.”

“Just because you leave someone doesn't mean the relationship is over. It goes on.”

“Tripping twice on the same stone.”

“Every bondman in his own hand bears. The power to cancel his captivity.”

“Churchill's greatest intellectual gift was for picking on essentials and concentrating on them.”