My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them
A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian. . . The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"
You can never underestimate the prince, I'm always there. The prince will never die. I ain't bragging, but I ain't seen nobody, and I mean nobody, come to the ring in such style, with such flair, charisma, I'm talking about bringing it all, a full package. I mean who would you know that could come out in a flying carpet. Come out like a concert, dancing, with like, oozing confidence, and then get in and take somebody out. Come on, do you know anybody in the history of the sport, that did what Prince Naseem did. And I ain't trying to brag, but I was bloody good at it.
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.