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Rank Quotes by Mark Twain
- Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.
- To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the…
- By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field
More Rank Quotes
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank… — Bruce Barton
- My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy… — Johannes Brahms
- Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore… — Madeleine Albright
- When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and… — Winston Churchill
- Blessed the man and woman who is able to serve cheerfully in the second rank - a big test. — Mary Slessor
- The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel Johnson