"I should NOT be trading on the blood of my men."

-- Robert E. Lee

#Men Quotes #Blood Quotes #Should Quotes

“Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the peppercorn, I'd bounce happily in my haven in the heavens. I loved that tree - and fully understand why Heysen, Roberts, McCubbin and the rest devoted so much time and effort to painting arboreal portraits.”
“Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.”
“I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay.”
“History marches to the drum of a clear idea.”
“Don't get me started on cold toilet seats.”
“I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.”

Source : Interview in Saturday Evening Post, quoted by USA Today, August 7, 2005.
“The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.”
“If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle”

Source : John Adams, Benjamin Rush (1892). “Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]”

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