Quotes Library

January 24, 2025

Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Count Galeazzo Ciano (1903-1944), Fascist politician, son-in-law to Benito Mussolini, Diary (1946) vol.2, 9 September 1942, Jay p.95

You know this saying has a hundred fathers, don’t you?

In fact, Ciano is wrong. Politicians are the fathers of every defeat. Ask Mary Chesnut (vide January 26).

June 26, 2025

6 months ago

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

July 2, 2025

6 months ago

Fame is a vapor; popularity is an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

February 15, 2025

10 months ago

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don’t know by what you do;

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