You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date

I never expect a soldier to think.

You are a very poor soldier: a chocolate cream soldier!

As an old soldier I admit the cowardice : it's as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little.

As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man