It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

A lion, for instance, which in nature is not a very distinctive object, was portrayed, for greater distinction, with its leonine attributes, its fierce expression, frightful claws, lithe and ,lissom body all vastly exaggerated, so that indeed it looked more like a lion than did ever any lion of nature. In this wise, by turning away from true representation and adopting a character all its own, was the 'heraldic lion' born, and with it came also the manner of depictin all the other beasts and forms and patterns which is so peculiarly heraldic.

Sir George Bellew

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Go bow thy head in gentle spite, Thou lily white, For she who spies thee waving here, With thee in beauty can compare As day with night.

James Matthews Legaré

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Aristotle Onassis

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

Doris Roberts

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

Barry Bonds

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

David Bailey

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.

William Hazlitt

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.

Ray Floyd

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.

Charles Barkley