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Colin Moulding (1955) English bassist, songwriter and vocalist
"Generals And Majors"
Black Sea (1980)
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761), vol. ii. p. 147.
The saying "he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day" dates at least as far back as Menander (ca. 341–290 B.C.), Gnomai Monostichoi, aphorism #45: ἀνήρ ὁ ϕɛύγων καὶ ράλίν μαχήɛṯαί (a man who flees will fight again). The Attic Nights (book 17, ch. 21) of Aulus Gellius (ca. 125–180 A.D.) indicates it was already widespread in the second century: "...the orator Demosthenes sought safety in flight from the battlefield, and when he was bitterly taunted with his flight, he jestingly replied in the well-known verse: The man who runs away will fight again".
“Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius”
Conn Iggulden book The Gates of Rome
Source: The Gates of Rome
“...there are more things to admire in men than to despise.”
Albert Camus book The Plague
The Plague (1947)
Norman Schwarzkopf (1934–2012) United States Army general
Interview with Barbara Walters (15 March 1991); also quoted in his memoir It Doesn't Take a Hero : General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the Autobiography (1992), p. xiii