Afternoon Quote by Dave Barry

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not…

— Kelly Miller

“The French army had crowned a campaign of extraordinary successes by defeating the Austrians at Jemappes and pressing on to occupy a large swathe…

— Mike Jay

The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium…

— Kelly Miller

Thinking of Germany in the night robs me of my sleep.

— Heinrich Heine

That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert…

— Ernst Zundel

“Germany had bombed Britain, and Britain had bombed back, and had gotten pretty good at it. In 1943 they had started a firestorm that…

— Lee Child

“Belgium’s declared intention to fight was, the Germans believed, no more than the “rage of dreaming sheep”—in the words a Prussian statesman once applied…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“They were twelve days in which world history wavered between two courses and the Germans came so close to victory that they reached out…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

When I was a kid in my neighborhood, there was nobody that supported Belgium. It was impossible and unthinkable because there was nothing they…

— Vincent Kompany

I couldn't have imagined Belgium being number one in the world.

— Mousa Dembele

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly…

— Tom Lehrer

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

— Friedrich Nietzsche