General Quotes

There are wise people who talk ever so knowingly and complacently about "the working classes," and satisfy themselves that a day's hard intellectual work is very much harder than a day's hard manual toil, and is righteously entitled to much bigger pay. Why, they really think that, you know, because they all know about the one, but haven't tried the other. But I know all about both; and as far as I am concerned, there isn't money enough in the universe to hire me to swing a pickaxe thirty days, but I will do the hardest kind of intellectual work for just as near nothing as you can cipher it down--and I will be satisfied, too. Intellectual "work" is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation and its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer, is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the magician with the fiddle-bow in his hand who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him--why certainly, he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same. The law of work does seem utterly unfair--but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, also.

I have agreed with General Houston for an armistice until matters can be so regulated that the war will cease forever.

Right now some future general is lying in his crib trying to get his big toe in his mouth. Such was probably the case of our guest of honor tonight.

These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.

It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

In picking Gen. Jim Mattis for Defense secretary, President-elect Donald Trump has said that he found his 'Gen. George Patton.' Yet that label may not really capture what makes Mattis a distinctive choice.

The first of all qualities of a general is courage.

When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.

When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

White men have too many chiefs.

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

I have the utmost confidence in Sen. Sessions, now General Sessions.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

General Petraeus is a man that has the backbone that somebody like President-elect Trump would love.

Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leading the Cyclopes, you are appointed a general I. The armies of Olympus. You shall henceforth lead you breathren into war whenever required by the gods. And you shall have a new...um...what kind of weapon would you like? A sword? An axe?" "Stick!" Tyson said, showing his broken club. "Very well," Zeus said. "We will grant you a new, er, stick. The best stick that may be found." "Hooray!

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

I think General [Mike] Flynn is probably the top contender for that job [of national security adviser].

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

Mad is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals.