I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?
-Eve Merriam
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-George Smith Patton
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
The gods and demons were rivals of each other. The demons, swollen with pride, said, “In what, pray, should we place the oblation?” And they proceeded to place it in their own mouths.