Boast Quote by Edward Young Download Open image “Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.” — Edward Young ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boast Bombs Maids Modest Should Soldier
“There are always those who wish to sanitize war by portraying its grand and noble deeds-which sometimes occur-while drawing a veil over its shameless side. By its nature, war is harsh, brutal, and pitiless, and while it can call out the best in humankind, it can also awaken the darkest side of human nature, arousing in many participants a coldhearted… — John Ferling Copy Share
...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something. — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall… — Plato Copy Share Image
You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Army wives sacrifice a lot, we need to salute them because no matter what, they always put up a brave face. — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image
“To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them,… — David Galula Copy Share Image
There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in… — Anonymous Copy Share
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
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