
“No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.”
1970s, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
“No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.”
1970s, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
Spoken by George C. Scott in the film Patton.
Variants:
No man ever won a war by dying for his country. Wars were won by making the other poor bastard die for his.
You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his.
War is not meant to be you dying for your country-it is by making the other bastard die for his.
Misattributed
“Do you want me to strangle him now, or wait till he’s finished annoying you?”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004), Chapter 7, “Bad Moon Rising” (p. 163)
Jason Arnopp, Slipknot: Inside the Sickness, Behind the Masks (2001), ISBN 0091879337