The world has turned over many times since I took the oath…

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

— Douglas MacArthur

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

— Douglas MacArthur

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

— Douglas MacArthur

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your…

— Douglas MacArthur

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

— John Lennon

“If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.”

— Anonymous

“So Anna did not blame the women of her time for what they had created; it was different only in kind from what she…

— Howard Bahr

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

— Chris Hedges

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers…

— John Webster

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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

— Zell Miller