John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I have not time to say any more, but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory. MonsieurTallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest.
-- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

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No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.
-- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

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For God's Sake be sure you do not risk the cannon.
-- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

#War #Risk #Sake
Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He distrusted writing because the settled character of the written word makes it look as if truth can be fixed and made to stand still. It is worth remembering that this greatest advocate of the objective reality of truth also believed that our access to that truth was sustained in reasoned discussion.
-- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

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Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.
Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
His time's forever, everywhere his place.
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.
If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein; If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain.
Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours rekindled and rallied, Of barren delights and unclean,Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallidAnd poisonous queen.
Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations ("s'Ã©tendre la mÃ©fiance et la haine entre," Fr.), that vie with one another ("qui rivalisent Ã l'envi," Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder ("engins meurtriers", Fr.).

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough famous quotes

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