"Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators."

-- Frederick Stanley Maude

#Army Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Land Quotes

“Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?”
“Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.”
“While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing”
“Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.”
“Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.”
“I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.”

Source : John Hay (1871). “Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces”, p.16
“By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.”
“Dolgan: â€™Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when â€˜tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.”

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