General Quotes

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. (Sun Tzu)
It is easier to know man in general than to know one man. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform. View quote
Xenophon
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day. View quote
Herodotus
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. View quote
Sun Tzu
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know. View quote
Noam Chomsky
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. View quote
Sydney Smith
In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV. View quote
Erma Bombeck
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. View quote
Pablo Picasso
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. (Walter Bagehot)
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. View quote
Jane Austen
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. View quote
Sun Tzu
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment. View quote
Livy
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. View quote
Susan Orlean
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since. (Charles de Lint)
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. View quote
William Hazlitt
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
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