Quotes from Famous Warriors

[cnholmes]

I'm going to post here various quotes by famous warriors. I'll try to post one each weekday as far as I can.

Please do contribute quotes too, but if you wish to discuss anything, please could you open another thread to do so? That way this thread will stay clear for easy browsing.

Thanks,
Chris.

[cnholmes]

The advantage of time and place in all martial actions is half a victory which being lost is irrecoverable.
Sir Francis Drake, 1558, letter to Queen Elizabeth 1

[cnholmes]

The courage of the soldier is heightened by the knowledge of his profession.
Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Military Institutions of the Romans, 378ad

[xcubic2002]

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

[cnholmes]

When a man has committed no faults in war, he can only have been engaged in it but a short time.

Marshal of France Vicomte de Turenne, 1645.

[raffael]

*Quote*

"Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength,
Knowledge may not be applied."

--Alexander the Great's Chief Physician

[cnholmes]

18th June 1815 The Battle Of Waterloo

Maxim XXIX. When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.

Napoleon Bonaparte.

[cnholmes]

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges: the old ones, grub [food].

George Bernard Shaw

[cnholmes]

Force has no place when there is need of skill.

Herodotus 484-420 The Histories of Herodotus.

[cnholmes]

War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

Hippocrates, Wounds of the Head, 415bc

[cnholmes]

Few victories are won on an empty belly.

Sir John Hawkwood (1320-1394)

[xcubic2002]

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

[xcubic2002]

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Roman Gary

[cnholmes]

Movement is the safety valve of fear; unless we wish to risk a sudden collapse of the man's nerve control, we must open the valve.

Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart, Thoughts on War, 1944

[cnholmes]

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Wilfred Owen - War Poet.