Logo
Quote by Louis Simpson
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. – Louis Simpson

Other quotes by Louis Simpson
No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
War
category

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. – Edward Gibbon

Category:
War

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. – Stephen Ambrose

Category:
War

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. – Walter Mosley

Category:
War

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight. – Madeleine Albright

Category:
War

Random Quotes

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we dont. – Steven Soderbergh

Category:
Education

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Mind, the

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. – Davy Crockett

Category:
respect

Id like to look like Madonna when Im her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. Ive always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but Im always aware if Im getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum. – Ellie Goulding

Category:
Age