Rout Quotes
27 quotes by 22 authors
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When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a…
— Sun Tzu
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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These…
— Sun Tzu
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When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference.…
— John Shelby Spong
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Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.
— Lord Byron
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They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private…
— Samuel Johnson
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The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple…
— H. L. Mencken
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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
— John Milton
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The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby compounding…
— Kevin Rudd
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You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.
— Andrew Jackson
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You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people…
— Andrew Jackson
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About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list. Time and again,…
— Charles H. MacDonald
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The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of their own very…
— Vine Deloria, Jr.
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The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple…
— H. L. Mencken
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I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should…
— John Vianney
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To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest, that…
— Russell Kirk
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As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer.…
— Samuel Johnson
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The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough…
— William Prynne
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Prayer is the master strategy that Godgives for the defeat and rout of Satan.
— Wesley L Duewel
Who Wrote These Rout Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 27 Rout Quotes as follows: