Anything that protracted a campaign Clausewitz condemned. Gradual reduction of the enemy, or a war of attrition, he feared like the pit of hell.
To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.
Today is a beautiful day. Thank you!
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.
Nothing amazes me anymore.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression.