Colonel William Prescott Famous Quotes
"Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes."
Colonel William Prescott Quotations
Challenges are what make life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J Marine
"I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate."
Sam James Ervin Jr
"To forgive is human, to forget divine. . .."
James Grand
"What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR)"
Golda Meir
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
Rich Cook
"It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after."
William Shakespeare
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
James Boswell
"Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."
Sydney Smith
"The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing."
Woodrow Wilson