The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

-- A 5th-century BCE Chinese military theorist whose

Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest.

-- The British general who defeated Napoleon at Water

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

-- The Prussian military theorist whose 'On War' became the most influential work of strategic theory in Western history

Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, and brains save both.

-- The 'Desert Fox' whose North African campaigns made him the most respected German general of World War II among both allies and enemies

He who seeks death shall live; he who seeks life shall die.

-- The Korean naval commander who defeated the Japanese navy in every engagement during the Imjin War

Intelligence is worth a thousand soldiers.

-- The Mamluk sultan who stopped the Mongol advance at Ain Jalut