“The Services in war time are fit only for desperadoes but, in peace, are fit only for fools.”
Book I, Chapter 9.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
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Letter to the Rev. John Johnson, (29 September1793).
Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804) Founding Father of the United States
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“Only those are fit to live who are not afraid of dying.”
Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) U.S. Army general of the army, field marshal of the Army of the Philippines
Richards Topical Encyclopedia (1951)
“Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.”
Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher
Source: The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.”
John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher and physician
“Only if our citizens are physically fit will they be fully capable of such an effort.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1960, Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American
Context: But physical fitness is as vital to the activities of peace as to those of war, especially when our success in those activities may well determine the future of freedom in the years to come. We face in the Soviet Union a powerful and implacable adversary determined to show the world that only the Communist system possesses the vigor and determination necessary to satisfy awakening aspirations for progress and the elimination of poverty and want. To meet the challenge of this enemy will require determination and will and effort on the part of all Americans. Only if our citizens are physically fit will they be fully capable of such an effort.
“But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.”
Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
“… maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.”
Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in.”
Kathy Acker (1947–1997) American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet
Don Quixote (1986)
Context: Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who prefer loneliness to the bickerings and constraints of heterosexual marriage, even such a woman who is a freak in our society needs a home.
Even freaks needs homes, countries, language, communication.
The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in. Anywhere. Is it for you, freaks, my loves, I am writing and it is about you.