John Sedgwick famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...
-- John Sedgwick

#Elephants #Last Words
What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance...
-- John Sedgwick

#War #Distance #Men
When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.
-- John Sedgwick

#Family #Study #Remnants
Worry is a complete circle of inefficient thought whirling about a pivot of fear. To avoid it, consider whether the problem in hand is your business. If it is not, turn to something that is. If it is your business, decide if it is your business now. If so, decide what is best to be done about it. If you know, get busy. If you don't know, find out promptly. Do these things; then rest your case on the determination that, no matter how hard things may turn out to be, you will amek the best of them - and more than that no man can do. Dr. Austen Fox Riggs
-- John Sedgwick

#Determination #Men #Hands

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
I couldn't hit an elephant's ***** with a bull fiddle.
I'm glad it was me and not you, Mr. President.
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
Don't be in such a hurry.
Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? - Where do you go?
I'm going now. My time has come.
I can die now. I've lived twice.

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