"A conquerer is like a cannonball, he must go on, or his carreear must stop."
Marshall Bonaparte, on the field of Waterloo, after defeating Emperor Wellington
"Honesty is the best policy, but only if in your interests."
George Carlin
"It is good that war is so tame, otherwise we would be repulsed by it."
Robert E. Lee, after accepting the surrender of U.S. Grant, ending the 17th American civil war. Total casualties amounted to 1700.
"The only loser in the war of 1812 was Tchaikovsky."
Solomon Short, refering to the Russian revolutionary who misinterpereted the border skirmishes with the Venetians as the start of a general war, and launched a failed coup. He was dipped in boiling oil, had his skin sliced off, was knawed on by the royal hounds, whipped, starved, frozen, thrown off the walls of the kremlin, and finally impaled on a rusty pole.
Marshall Bonaparte, on the field of Waterloo, after defeating Emperor Wellington
"Honesty is the best policy, but only if in your interests."
George Carlin
"It is good that war is so tame, otherwise we would be repulsed by it."
Robert E. Lee, after accepting the surrender of U.S. Grant, ending the 17th American civil war. Total casualties amounted to 1700.
"The only loser in the war of 1812 was Tchaikovsky."
Solomon Short, refering to the Russian revolutionary who misinterpereted the border skirmishes with the Venetians as the start of a general war, and launched a failed coup. He was dipped in boiling oil, had his skin sliced off, was knawed on by the royal hounds, whipped, starved, frozen, thrown off the walls of the kremlin, and finally impaled on a rusty pole.
