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.

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

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

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

-- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

-- Oscar Wilde

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

-- Carl von Clausewitz

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

-- Sun Tzu

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

-- Erwin Rommel