So Long As I Am

I Am Reminded Of The Professor Who, In His Declining Hours, Was Asked By His Devoted Pupils For His Final Counsel. He Replied, 'verify Your Quotations.

No Matter How Enmeshed A Commander Becomes In The Elaboration Of His Own Thoughts, It Is Sometimes Necessary To Take The Enemy Into Account.

I Have Left The Obvious, Essential Fact To This Point, Namely, That It Is The Russian Armies Who Have Done The Main Work In Tearing The Guts Out Of The German Army. In The Air And On The Oceans We Could Maintain Our Place, But There Was No Force In The World Which Could Have Been Called Into Being, Except After Several More Years, That Would Have Been Able To Maul And Break The German Army Unless It Had Been Subjected To The Terrible Slaughter And Manhandling That Has Fallen To It Through The Strength Of The Russian Soviet Armies.

I Had Been Brought Up And Trained To Have The Utmost Contempt For People Who Got Drunk - And I Would Have Liked To Have The Boozing Scholars Of The Universities Wheeled Into Line And Properly Chastised For Their Squalid Misuse Of What I Must Ever Regard As A Gift Of The Gods.

Failure Should Never Go To Heart And Success Should Never Go To Head, Both Makes A Person To Fall In Life.