Best Non-WW2 Quotes -Split from best WW2 quotes-

not quite on topic but the same mindframe

Leodoynis (a spartian king at thermopylae) when told the persians archers would fire enough arrows that they would block out the sun; "Good, then we shall fight in the shade."

 

During the same war, the Greek and Persian fleet met each other near Salamis. Both fleets counted several thousand ships. The Persian army, meanwhile, was marching on Athens via Thermopylae, so the Greeks were in a nasty situation.
But the Greek leader Leonidas told his Persian adversary: "If you want Greece, then come and get it!"

 

Salamis was the first truly decisive naval victory in recorded history, and it was a real beauty. The Greeks suckered the Persians into maneuvering into restricted waters, where their numbers worked against them, then proceeded to wreak total havoc on the Persian fleet.

 

Hear is a WW1 quote:

At the begining of the Sea Battle of Jutland 2 of the British forces battle cruisers were sunk the admiral in charge of the fleet (name eludes me) says:
"There must be something wrong with our bloody ships today"

 

"The only thing in the world that is worse than a victorious battle, is a lost battle."

(Lord Wellington, seeing all the dead and wounded after the battle of Waterloo)

 

Well, "To subdue the enemy without fighting is the epitome of skill" -Sun Tzu.

Thank you Mutant Poodle!

 

Here's another one:
" Goals are dreams with deadlines" - a trainer I once had.

 

Political power grows from the barrel of a gun - Mao Zedong

 

veni vidi vici (I came, I saw, I conquered) - Julius Caesar after victory over Pharnaces.

alea iacta est (The die is cast!) - Julius Caesar upon crossing the Rubicon!

 

"Et tu, Brute?" -Ceaser while being stabbed to death by 23 members of the council including a close friend, Brutus.

 

"Tu quoque mi fili"
Cesar on the same occasion, noticing that his own son was with his murderers.

 

"When in doubt,brew up"
British tank crew motto.
"Who cares who wins?"
same crew.
"Bull**** baffles brains"
Ditto.
"Two most dangerous things are,
"A sailor with a rifle and an officer with a map"
Got to be the same tank crew!.

 

Theirs not to make reply
Their's not to reason why
Theirs's but to do and die

Lord A. Tennyson about soldiers in the crimean war.

 

Yes, it was Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty who said that.

 

Your boots are bloody!
(Major George Rich, OC. "C Sqd. Queens Bays . Italy, Christmas 46.
To me. 14478711 Tpr.S. B. he really hurt my feelings )

 

That's a WW2 quote tanpark! We have a topic for that too.

 

WW2 lasted until 1946 Roel? Are you sure?

 

Must be getting old! I thought the war I was talking about ended May 8th 45??? or was that one of the others? Korea? Falklands?Gulf?Crimea?Zulu?
Agincourt? Pass,Ask the audiance,phone a friend, no, I'll take the money!!!

 

Well, arguably the war went on till August 1945 untill VJ Day, but even that doesn't take in Christmas 1946!

 

Whoops! must be the senility creeping in!You are absolutely Correct!
once again the 14th Army has been forgotten, how could any one forget the exploits of Errol Flynne(that don't look right) who he any way? and my son in law's father was a Chindit with the Leicesters, appolagises again,
Sorry, I got carried away with DDay memorial services coming up.
August 14th. I believe,1945.Note. Do not make a mistake in this Forum!!