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| Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunnelling to the top. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. | Charles Maurice De Talleyrand | 1754-1838, French Statesman |
| Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack. | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769-1821, French General, Emperor |
| An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag. | Proverb | |
| Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. [On filming MacHale's Navy] | Bruce Campbell | |
| Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. | Edward Everett | 1794-1865, American Statesman, Scholar |
| Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. | George Herbert | 1593-1632, British Metaphysical Poet |
| Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. | George Washington | 1732-1799, First President of the USA |
| Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. | Jimmy Page | 1944-, Irish Musician, Guitarist |
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| There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. | John Ashbery | 1927-, American Poet, Critic |
| 'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels. | John Selden | 1584-1654, British Jurist, Statesman |
| An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. | Mao Zedong | 1893-1976, Founder of Chinese Communist State |
| That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| The army is the true nobility of our country. | Napoleon III | 1808-1873, Third son of Louis Bonaparte, the President of the Second French Rep. |
| A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple. | Philip Roth | 1933-, American Novelist |
| Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure. | Robert A. Cook | |
| I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. | Robert E. Lee | 1807-1870, American Confederate Army Commander |
| It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. | Robert H. Schuller | 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader |
| Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army. | Sir Richard Hull | |
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| The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. | Sir William Blackstone | 1723-1780, British Jurist |
| There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. | Thomas B. Macaulay | 1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian |
| Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come. | W. I. E. Gates | |
