War

In war, truth is the first casualty.
-Aeschylus

Dulce bellum inexpertis. ("War is a delightful to those who have no experience of it")
-Erasmus

I did not mean to be killed today.
-dying words of the Vicomte de Turenne, at the Battle of Salzbach, 1675

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle one.
-The Dike of Wellington, in a dispatch from Waterloo, 1815

A brave Captain is a root, out of which as branches the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
-Sir Phillip Sidney

Mark Twain

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.