"It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones."

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Source : Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.27, Courier Corporation

Maurice de Saxe

#Army Quotes #Winning Quotes #Battle Quotes

“For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.”
“What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred miles on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.”
“Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.”
“We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?”
“I'm a firm believer that the wild-card teams, because they're grinding it out until the final days, have a tremendous amount of excitement. That excitement carries over into the playoffs and really helps.”
“Cultivate night-blooming jasmine near your bedroom window, and dream of men you've always longed for.”

Source : Gwen Davis (1976). “How to survive in suburbia when your heart's in the Himalayas”
“We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.”
“My rookie is manly, so manly, oh so manly his name is Derrick Bateman.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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