Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
04SEP2020 – Quote of the Day
Keep your friends close, your enemies even closer.
Sun Tzu
03SEP2020 – Quote of the Day
If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.
Sun Tzu
02SEP2020 – Quote of the Day
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
Sun Tzu
01SEP2020 – Quote of the Day
Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.
Mark Twain
31AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (reply to Mr. Dundas)
30AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
“As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where it’s going out of style.”
Raymond Chandler (quote from The Big Sleep)
29AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.”
Raymond Chandler (quote from The Big Sleep)
28AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
“Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You’re the second guy I’ve met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.”
Raymond Chandler, quote from The Big Sleep
27AUG2020 – Quote of the Day
“Tall, aren’t you?” she said.
“I didn’t mean to be.”
Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.”
―Raymond Chandler (quote from The Big Sleep)