"NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker." — Ambrose Bierce

More Combatant Quotes

This quote is filed under Combatant Quotes, one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• War hath no fury like a non-combatant. — Charles Edward Montague
• The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his… — Sun Tzu
• Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight...… — Sun Tzu
• Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological,… — Arnold Haultain
• The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on… — Sun Tzu
• Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been… — Herman Melville
• No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The First Lady and I both spotted the President standing under the mistletoe and she moved in to grab a… — Pete Souza
• If now we were livingin the Revolutionary War and George Washington he being arrested through Britain. For sure he, they… — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
• Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest… — Meghan O'Rourke
• The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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