As the country so the proverb. – German Proverb
A great war leaves the country with three armies — an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. – German Proverb

As the country so the proverb. – German Proverb
A great war leaves the country with three armies — an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. – German Proverb
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartletts Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. – Sir Winston Churchill
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit. – Edwin P. Whipple, lecture delivered before the Boston Mercantile Library Associa