Mud & Guts : A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution (1978) Foreword
Context: My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it."
“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”
“It's a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain't falling down.”
Source: Lyrics: 1962-2001
“You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.”
Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 6, p. 101
“Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!”
Response received (after Edison spat on the floor and before he walked off) when M. A. Rosanoff joined the West Orange, New Jersey team in 1903 and humbly asked: “Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe.” M. A. Rosanoff’s quote appeared in Harper’s Monthly, September 1932, p. 24.
1900s
Variant: There ain´t no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something.
Astral Weeks
Song lyrics, Astral Weeks (1969)
