Robert E Lee Famous Quotes
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."
"There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war."
"You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set."
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less."
Robert E Lee Quotations
Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
Vincent Voiture
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
Dorothy Sarnoff
"I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind."
Bryant Gumbel
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
William Feather
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
Archibald Wavell
"I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one."
Euripides
"I imagine, therefore I belong and am free."
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul."
Douglas MacArthur
"Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters."
William Shakespeare
"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
Samuel Johnson