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"To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love." »Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet
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"What is man's chief enemy Each man is his own." »Anacharsis Cloots
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"chief of the Army." »Napoleon Bonaparte, last words, 1821
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"Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief." »William Shakespeare
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"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education." »Sir Walter Scott
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"The home is the chief school of human virtues." »William Ellery Channing
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"A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time." »John Stuart Mill
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"The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception." »Baron Manfred von Richthofen ("Red Baron")
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"The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty." »Nelson Rockefeller
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"At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets." »Oscar Wilde
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"The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness." »Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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"When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated." »H.L. Mencken
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"The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore." »H. L. Mencken
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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed" »Sir W. Temple
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"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything." »Robert Frost
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"The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." »H.L. Mencken
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"The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were." »Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom." »Cyril Northcote Parkinson
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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." »Charles Kingsley
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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." »Charles Kingsley
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"The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection." »E.C. Stedman
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"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations." »Albert Einstein
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"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them." »Frank Moore Colby
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"He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies." »W. Wirt
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"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible." »P. J. O'Rourke
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