Old soldiers never die - they're just thrown on the scrap…

“ Angel , who found a flower blooming in hell and died for it ...”

— Pat Mills

“Old soldiers never die, they write novels.”

— James Jones

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

— Douglas MacArthur

Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.

— Douglas MacArthur

“They say I don't pray for my enemy. I do. I pray they go to hell. - Marshal Law”

— Pat Mills

“I'm a hero hunter. I hunt heroes. Haven't found any yet. - Marshal Law”

— Pat Mills

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the…

— Anonymous

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals,…

— A. A. Gill

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

— Zell Miller

The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of…

— Douglas MacArthur

That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,'…

— Terry Pratchett

Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently…

— Elsa Maxwell

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young…

— Anonymous

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

— George Bernard Shaw