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"I remember when I was in the army, we had the toughest drill sergeant in the world. He'd get right up next to your face and yell, and if you didn't have the right answers, mister, you'd be peeling potatoes or changing the latrine. Hey, wait. I wasn't in the army. Then who WAS that guy" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq." »Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
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"The World's most powerful army is the army of Medicine, as it is fighting against a real enemy, the most powerful one: The Death!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep." »Arab Proverb
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"You go to war with the army you have. They're not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." »Donald Rumsfeld, http://www.dod.gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208-secdef1761.html
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"How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks." »Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
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"Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias." »Bertrand Russell
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"I am more afriad of an army of 100 sheep lead by a lion than an army of 100 lions lead by a sheep." »Tallyrand
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"Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army." »Julius Caesar, (attributed)
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"The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council." »Homer
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"The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council." »Homer, The Iliad
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"If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life." »Eric Hoffer
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"The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created."" »Julian the Apostate
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"Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity." »George Frost Kennan
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"I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior." »Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
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"Chief of the army." »Napoleon Bonaparte, last words, 1821
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"An army marches on its stomach." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Tony Montana You think you can take me You need a f***ing army if you gonna take me" »Scarface
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"A language is a dialect with an army and a navy." »Max Weinreich
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"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army." »George Herbert
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"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come." »Victor Hugo
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"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." »Edward Everett Hale
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"The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose." »Henry Kissinger
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"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance." »Joseph Stalin
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"The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers." »Cervantes
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"I think Google should be like a Swiss army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere." »Marissa Mayer
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"The army of Truth is the real Invincible Armada. Truths are always destined to be victorious." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed." »Bill Vaughan
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